Hmm. Regardless of whether a Floyd is made by Schaller or not (and Schaller make 'em under license, like everyone else), what bothers me about them on Strats is the string radius at the saddles.

The quoted website doesn't quite care to mention the fact that Schaller's FR, like most (all?) others, has a 12 inch radius at the bridge. Couple that with a ten inch radius at the nut and you have a very ungainly setup over a Fender's 9 1/2 inch radius fingerboard.

Some people like their strings set to a smaller radius than the fingerboard. Who on earth wants the strings laid out to a flatter radius? Not comfortable, and for all Floyd's cited intelligence he didn't put saddles with height adjustment on his original bridge. No idea why not...

Cheers - C

I'll be getting one of these for my Strat once I have the $$$:

http://www.super-vee.com/index.html

Double locking, no routing, looks quite cool. A little expensive, but it's worth it to not have to rout the body.

EDIT: Just saw you mention one of these in an earlier post. Sorry if I'm a little late.

That locking nut looks a little funky and cumbersome though...I wonder if you could get away with using an LSR nut and locking tuners in lieu of that?

I was just wondering the same thing. If anyone has any input on this, please share.

Kinda defies the point of using a Floyd in the first place. The whole idea of that system is to tune the string and then clamp it tight at either end of it's speaking length.

Do away with the locking nut, you might as well use any of the other very nice vibrato systems available, many of which are better suited to a Strat in any case...

BTW: not a comment on any of the posters here, but people sometimes turn out to be slightly misunderstanding what locking tuners do...

Cheers - C

Good point. Am I correct in thinking that the only "locking" aspect of locking tuners is clamping the string in the post? A friend of mine is thoroughly convinced that the knobs themselves lock in place. Which obviously doesn't make sense.