I use to play almost exclusively Floyd Rose Strats after switch to a vintage tremolo Strat i have now gotten to were i don't care much for the Floyd Roses..Im thinking about trading my last MIM Floyd rose for this weirdo Dipinto Galaxie 4...I will try to post a link for you to check out let me know what you think..http://stlouis.craigslist.org/msg/1544021757.html

For some reason i can not get the link to work for the craigslist add that i'm thinking of trading with.. Okay worked that time

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/msg/1544021757.html

I dont know CC my Friend that owns over 70 axes just picked one up and he is crazy about it. He bought it off a guy who came in his shop and had three and wanted to sell one. It has been his new toy for the last 4 months. They are not that easy to come by and just make sure you dont regret it. Besides being a pain in the $@! they are fun.

How's it going Invader, do you still use the trem? Has your style changed? What's changed your mind?

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The guy had 3 of these Dipinto's? As far as the Floyd Rose goes im getting rid of it regardless it is just a matter of this guitar or some other guitar or cash...

Mostly i would say it was a style change i use to play in a Iron Maiden Trbute band for almost 7 years traveled all over the place with them.The i got a chance to audition with one of my favorite local/Traveling blues band about 2 years ago and won the job..
I started playing my 73 standard and Strat ultra with them ..Now it is hard for me to play the Floyd Roses my picking hand has a hard time finding a proper place to rest or mute ...I anchor my pinkie at a certain spot on all my guitars but on the Floyds i can't do it because of the position of the tremolo so i find myself floating my picking hand which cause picking mistakes..I think it's just a matter of i don't use them enough to be familiar with them anymore and i own 4 other strats ..

Plus i also like weird guitars..As far as this trade idea goes

There's nothing wrong with an original trem anyway, if you string your strat properly and use a little graphite on the nut they work just fine.
I never liked the Floyd Rose, a very fiddly hunk of dull sounding metal stuck to the face of a guitar that gives only a very small improvement. Over engineered and tone killing. Strictly for hairdresser metal bands with an 80s nostalgia kick.

I wrench the living daylights out of my US standard trem and my tuning is pretty stable, no complaints, so I never saw the need to install the starship enterprise on my strat.

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ive been looking at floyd rose strats, they seem very tempting to purchase but with the floyd also comes the problems. im GASing for a strat and kinda want a floyd rose, but i have a ibanez sitting over in sweden with a floyd rose so dont need another floyd rose guitar, its just the fact i want to play something with one.
but i dont believe the extra £100 or so is worth spending for the floyd rose so will end up getting a 70's reissue or a MIM standard.

Nice strat Invader- I had one of these with a rosewood board, I am guessing early to mid nineties? noting the single tone control

Hard to find this particular model. Good to see you changed out the bucker- man I remember that OEM pick-up was nasty!

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Yours is a common sentiment among those who can't, or won't take the time to learn how to set a Floyd up properly: hate the unknown.

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Or Joe Satriani, Dimebag Darrell, John Petrucci, Kirk Hammett, Eddie Van Halen, etc.

Some of the things you can do with a FR and stay in tune completely you really can't do with a synchronized tremolo (only 30 years playing experience here so disregard my noobieness). Yeah, you can string it correctly and do some vibrato work - heck, even Yngwie does pretty well - but you can't divebomb to slack strings twenty times and expect it to still be in tune. I've tried it many times and it doesn't work on a synchronized tremolo - and I know how to set it up, lock the strings in the tuner (heck, my American Deluxe has locking tuners), and even the graphite lubrication at the nut and/or saddles.

Joelski and Kuroyume - I'm not hating on the Floyd, I believe I said I never liked them. And they're not that hard to set up properly, I've spent some time with one on a friend's guitar and used it on a few different occasions and had it operating just fine. But yeah, my style doesn't involve twenty divebombs to completely slack strings so I never felt the need for that complex a trem system when the original one does everything I want - include a lesser number of divebombs.

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My experience with a Floyd is that its not such a tone killer at all.. I used to have mine set flat for divebombing only. This did set a different tone over having it float. I also found it a little more comfortable on the picking hand if I had to rest it for muting.

Actually, one couldn't really tell the difference. If any, because of the higher mass at the bridge, it sounded a tad brighter. The thing I dont like (and aside from tuning stability) are the sharp edges on the saddle height adjust screws on vintage style trems.

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Some of us do play stuff that does involve that. I usually play this type of style on one of my Ibanez guitars or Wolfgang for that reason. I have two Strats as well but I'd kill for the OP's Strat. It is exactly what I've been seeking - an American Stratocaster w/FR, maple fretboard (though it is not possible to tell if that is MIA from the photo). I wish he wasn't in St. Louis and on craigslist because, well, I can't travel there to play and pay personally.

Currently, the only available option new is an MIM with only rosewood fretboard. And I was hoping for white. I know, I'm so easily pleased.

I've never played one of the DiPinto axes, but I like their image--they look cool and funky to me, like an old Danelectro or Teisco Del Rey.

I'm not a big fan of tremolos at all (much less a Floyd Rose or Kahler!). I even blocked the trem on my MIA '62RI Strat--but, with the way that weird trends in music/musical instruments go, it might be a good idea to hold on to your little "White Elephant with a Floyd Rose"...Who knows? The Strat you're disdaining now might eventually become a popular model again...and you'll be kicking yourself for letting "that one" get away.

Just a few years ago, nobody (and I mean NOBODY!) would have looked at or bought a Strat with the big late 60's/early 70's headstock...now Fender is re-issuing them, and the originals are gaining acceptance & value in collector's circles.

If you don't need the money and have other guitars to play, you might just store this one...and cash in later!

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