I have a gold fender bridge on my guitar I built and it is not flush against body wood, sits about 5 mm higher with the left right claws slotted into the 2 screws that come with it that screw into body, also have 5 springs at back very stiff wha wha. It all works, is this a floating bridge being 5mm off body thanks for your advice help blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and twaaaaaaaaaaa

Hi Vin: here is an attempt to float a bridge - not very successfully. This was during flooding in my country last year in the small town of Cockermouth. Now there's a name to conjure with...:



(And the sensible answer: yes, if the back is a few mil off the deck allowing you to use the wammy bar to bend notes up as well as down then your bridge is floating.)

Cheers - C

Yup, that's a floating bridge. So is this <_<

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5mm is a lot of float. Fender suggests 3.2mm. "Allowing the bridge to float freely (no tension on the tremolo arm) using the claw screws in the tremolo cavity, adjust the bridge to your desired angle—Fender spec is a 1/8" (3.2 mm) gap at rear of bridge."
from: http://www.fender.com/support/stratocas ... _guide.php

It appears your bridge is more buoyant than most, and therefore floats more easily. Have you thought about attaching an anchor to it?

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Thanks for your responses and I love the bridges hahahahahah . My concern is when I put it in it floats 5mm at front and back. Should I lower it completely so it touches the body to give more sustain vibrations if so will need to drill deeper the 2 screws and then raise the string height with screws. It sounds excellent just thought should it the base touch the body is this a Fender rule

Vinny

In my experience having the bridge touching the body of the guitar does not enhance tone or sustain in any way. When Leo first designed the strat the trem was made to float. The original patent drawing shows it as such.



Jeff Beck sets his trem up so the high E pulls up to G, the open G pulls up to C in that instance. The trem sits 3/8's" off the body of the guitar. He doesn't have any problems with sustain does he?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwvBizKAwc

And he attacks his strat

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thanks all

No sir, that is not a floating bridge, that is a ferry.

Now, this here is the I-90 floating bridge it is in Washington over lake Washington.




But this them brings up the question, does Cockermouth now need a ferry.


That's like finding out the Amtrak station in San Fransisco is named "The Ferry Building". (And it is).

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No Jeff, they had a budget splurge and paid out for two stepping stones and a rubber ring. Theres only a chip shop and two pubs there.

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No, it's a bridge ^^

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Here is a floating bridge on John Mayers guitar.
Its no illusion this guitar is floating above the stage without support.

squeeeeels like a pig at your answers blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and twaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa oink oink oink we are all floating in space mother earth is a floating ball that swooshes round and round

Ha - well, if we're getting into definitions:



This is the Dartmouth higher ferry on the river Dart in the South West of England. Because it is tethered, following cables it picks up from the river bed, it is officially classed by the Highways Authority as a "rolling road". In the early days of Sat-Navs it apparently appeared as a continuation of the road which meets it on either side of the river. And there is a popular local story of a German couple in their Mercedes who obediently drove into the water and became stranded - because their Sat-Nav told them there was a road there.

That one falls into the category of: "If it ain't true it ought to be."

Cheers - C