It has hit the sloped piece on the baseplate. I can't give you any guarantees that a trem swap will work 100%. The saddle simply hits the sloping piece of the baseplate and stops. Normally, there's enough range to do this, but things often change when you use drop tunings.ĭepending on the amount of down tuning, you will have to move some of the saddles even further back and you may run out of range. So, after replacing a Schaller with an OFR, you typically move the saddles slightly back on the OFR (away from the nut), to properly intonate the guitar again. This is to accommodate for a small difference in the design between the two tremolo bridges. Jackson and Charvel guitars, factory fitted with Schallers, have the posts positioned 1/16" closer to the nut compared to OFR fitted guitars. Personally, I have never had any problems, but JCF member Zerberus has several times brought the following to my attention: It varies, depending on your particular tuning and the guitar in question. Intonation problems could arise, if you are swapping between Schaller and OFR trems on a Jackson or Charvel guitar. Maybe with the aid of a Kahler expert out there? Unfortunately, I don't know much about Kahlers, nor have I had the time to investigate them, but hopefully they will be added later. Jackson / Charvel did use Kahler tremolos too, especially on the early Japanese imports and many Custom Shop guitars. Many of them are made by Schaller in Germany.
The JT-XXX designations used in this article is Jacksons own way of naming the different tremolos used on their guitars, and I will adhere to that naming scheme. The Schaller made tremolos mentioned in the following are also found on other brands of guitars (Gibson, for instance). I am trying to apply helpful comments regarding swapping and changing parts too, because many of these units are old by now and needs care or replacement. It is an ongoing project, but I've come a long way since the start, so there are many models included in the following. Now, do you hear any volume changes when using your whammy bar? Thought so! -) Check back for tips and advice Tremolo is a regular and repetitive variation in amplitude (volume). In my opinion when using the "whammy bar" on your floating locking bridge, the effect you get is not tremolo. I would like to call it vibrato, like we used to in the old days, but nowadays everybody knows a floating locking bridge as a tremolo. The most popular and top quality Original Floyd Rose tremoloĪ newer, Low Profile version of the legendary Original Floyd Rose tremoloīefore we get started, I would like to apologize for using the word tremolo in this article, when describing a floating locking bridge on an electric guitar. Old Floyd Rose III single locking tremolo, much like the original Floyd Rose single locking and the JT-570 Schaller made Floyd Rose II double locking tremolo, precision crafted in Germany Low Profile model Floyd Rose licensed double locking tremolo Used around 1990-1992įloyd Rose licensed double locking tremolo with machined steel baseplate and threaded armĪ Takeuchi stamped / produced tremolo, known as good quality version of a JT-580 Schaller made Floyd Rose licensed single locking tremolo. Known as a poorer quality lookalike of the later made JT-590 / Schaller Floyd Rose II tremolos
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Single locking tremolo used on some of the Charvette Series guitars 1989-1991. Swapping Schaller / Floyd Rose's? Beware!
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