It really is personal choice.

I have my Fender floating at the 1/8" like the factory recommends.

I also have another brand guitar with a Floyd Rose on it for when I get "crazy".

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

How about the hipshot little doohicky that you mount to the claw/bridge? Has anyone tried one of these? It seems that two of these instead of one might be the ticket.

Changes the tone and feel of your guitar alot. i didn't like it, my buddy loves his so no help there. You should never need 2 tremsetters, not even sure you can jam 2 o em in there anyway.

I've tried it, don't like it. Feels funny to use. I would also agree that it probably changes the tone.

Putting two on? What's the point, really? It will never be a floyd rose, if that's what you want then just get one put on.

5 springs and tighten the spring claw holder to the body.
Blocked, no movement ,better tone, sustain and stays in tune.

Peter

Depends on the bridge, if it's a new 2 post i would float it, if it's a vintage style bridge i would (and do) slam it to the body. I'm thinking about a new 50's player strat i really dig the two post trem, the one I played in my local store seemed to stay in tune really well. With a little graphite on the nut should be great!

i keep it screwed down. i hardly whammy much.

Hello, i was wandering, did youre strat ever
at any try to go sharp whenever you used youre tremelo. Reason asking is because i cant keep decent tension on my strat, because every time i use the trem it goes sharp and everybody says to loosen the trem claw.

Either something is wrong with my tuner or i'm going nuts.

I have 5 springs also, do i suppose to keep loosening the trem claw untill it stops going sharp?

HELPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!! PLEASE !

JEFF

You are going sharp mostly because the strings are getting hung up in the nut slot. Take a pencil and rub some lead in the slots or get some graphite powder and put in the slots that should cure your problem.

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Against the body.

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+ 1 -- Another vote for "no float". Personally, I do not buy the "it stays perfectly in tune with a proper setup" stand for a vintage trem. But that is just my OPINION. The advantage of "no float" is that after using the trem, the bridge can only come back to "neutral rest" EXACTLY where it was before the trem used. This fact along with a well-lubed and good setup provides significantly more tuning stability over similar floating one. The only negative to going to a "no float" is that you can not trem upwards, which (again, IMO) is a very cheap price to pay for significantly better tuning stability. ... just my opinion ...

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Last night i drove 30 miles with my guitars in the trunk of a car to play a unrehearsed gig as a stand in guitarist. I took my custom classic and baja tele. Got to the gig, stood the guitars onstage under the lights whilst i set my amp up. Went to the keyboard player when i was set and asked for a middle C to tune from. Both guitars were perfect and maintained that status despite a fair bit of trem action on the strat and a 1/4" float. I'd argue the point that a flat set trem cant return to pitch properly as its ability to pull back and find its natural setting is hampered. Plenty of players use a floating trem with no adverse tuning stability issues. If you want strings off the board dives or super high squeally nonsense kahler or floyd are the only options. For a vocal like trem usage floating ala beck, marvin and other trem masters is the only way to go. Never heard of hank smashing up his burns because of tuning stability during apache or fbi.

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Ofourse personal preferences are just those. We all play the instrument differently so its natural for our preferences to follow suit.

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