Yes I finished it about the time Bon Jovi was singing something about a runaway
This is just a brief update to say how things went 6 months post completion and what has had to be fixed. I wish more people would do this, you watch a build evolve and then as soon as the strings are on all discussion stops and the post drifts like an untethered boat off to the dark places of the forum. I'd like to see what building techniques and hardware stand the test of time.
Vibrato is such a personal thing isn't it, I can't ever see myself owning a guitar where the strings can't be wobbled I have to say routing out the recesses for the Floyd was one of the most fun things I have ever done in woodwork. And playing the floating whammy is heaps of fun too. I realized the down side of a floating trem though, huge pain in the butt when a string breaks, the tension on the strings is no longer equalized by the strings and the guitar goes massively out of tune, no more finishing the song on 5 strings and it takes ages to fit a new string. Whatever you do don't drop one of the string clamp blocks, those tiny things are hella hard to find in a dark room. But as long as you have a spare guitar ready, you can do some crazy stuff with a Floyd.
My one is holding out OK around the pivot points
The replacement locking nut from Gotoh is good value for 20 bucks, you get shims in case it needs raised a bee's todger, a string retainer and if you look down the bottom of the bag an awl I'm guessing for marking the drill points.
Neck straightness is holding out nicely
I did consider a lam neck, it makes sense that they might hold straightness better than a one piece.
And the finish is holding up pretty good, you can see only small amounts of buckle rash
Talking about stuff popping up again, I laughed to see that some guys on the Misc Stuff thread still haven't got over their man crush on Jeff Litchfield, it's been half a decade since that $%&* stirrer posted and he has still got people talking about him, wait a sec, I'm doing it too Litch probably looks in on this forum every few months and caks himself