I’m half-assed keeping an eye out for a steal on a guitar in Facebook marketplace. Is sales history on reverb the best place to look up values? It’s awfully thin on some stuff like Ibanez rg’s that changed model numbers every year.
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Yeah I do stuff like that, stalk sales trends.
Stuff™ is starting to arrive. Almost ready to get started.
Considering ordering new tuning machines while I am at it. Probably will leave the bridge; it’s a floating trem, so I might just block it (or even just screw its springs full forward).
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I completely relate to this chain of thought
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Can you explain how you do this?
I might do on my Bass VI.
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You can put in a physical block to prevent the trem from moving, or you can do what I did last time and just tighten it a lot so it is difficult to move. Some people put on extra springs when they do this as well but I did not find this to be needed.
I really dislike trems, they complicate the guitar and moof the tuning while just adding expression I would rarely use.
I think they look cool and very guitar-y, but I’ve never liked using them.
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Definitely a part of the Strat look, yeah. And like Laurent said, the block and springs do affect the tone a little; there’s a reason everyone insists on brass blocks 
Also why the only 6 string that I’ve held on to all these years is an Epi LP (no trem). 
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I really wish I didn’t hate the way LP’s feel, because they tick a lot of boxes for what I like in guitars otherwise, yeah.
I may add this setup that I made on my LTD to force the Floyd Rose in a “dive only” mode. Much better stability and a really perceptible better tone because of the better contact between the bridge and the wood (the one that some people say it has nothing to do with the tone, you know 
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The role is equivalent as what @howard plans to do by locking the bridge in contact to the guitar top.
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True, but it has much LESS effect on the tone if you lock the tremolo in dive-only. You can save a few bucks there by not swapping the block 
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Oh interesting, you jack it all the way the other way. Cool.
My biggest complaint with them used to be weight. Now I play play bass,
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All of my basses have been lighter than any LP I have held
Yes because there is a hole in the guitar top so the Floyd can’t be in direct contact to the top. But that’s the same thing really.
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Neat!
The Pacifica has a mahogany body and I was thinking with that natural darkness it might pair nicely with the Nazgul/Sentient, so I was thinking about gluing in a block for contact there (its a Wilkinson style). But I may just spring it forward like I did on the Cort. I like to think there’s some neat Strat twang-verb added by the springs, even if it’s just psychological
actually to be more precise :
- the block definitly has an effect on the sound on a floating tremolo. The mass and material do something to the inertia of the strings and the way the vibrations transmit to the body.
- the springs do not really affect the tone, but can change drastically the feel of the tremolo, by changing the tension curve. For example I much prefer 3 strings than 5 strings, if I want a working tremoloe. The difference is huge.
- if you lock totally the tremolo, the best way is in my opinion a block of wood to make it totally static. You can remove the springs.
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It’s not psychological, it’s part of the sound of the Strat ! It’s subtle but it’s there
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