Best toned floyds

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:40 pm

Last week when i was restringing my wolfgang, the g string saddle stripped out

I dont ever tourqe them motherfuckers down enough to do that, i suppose the guy who owned it before me did.
Anyways, i swapped floyds from my 85 kramer baretta, but the fucker sounds much more brighter and im not diggin that. I've come to figure the saddles are a solid steel or other metal that is machine tooled, which is harder than the wolfgang saddles, which i am believing are made out of cast metal giving a warmer tone.

My question is, should i find another floyd or just saddles?
What is the tone like on them graphtech saddles?
Schaller floyds have replaceable pivot points, correct?

I highly doubt using a bigger block will take off some high end...

Gnarkiller · Post by **Gnarkiller** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:24 pm

it really makes that big of a difference?

slay · Post by **slay** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:58 pm

rethread it with JB weld

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:22 pm

Gnarkiller wrote:it really makes that big of a difference?

only if your that picky. i have a bone saddle in my acoustics and i think it makes a subtle difference

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:33 pm

ssh · Post by **ssh** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:52 pm

i'm tone deaf!

Kellan · Post by **Kellan** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:23 pm

Did you swap out the studs too?

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:36 am

Of course the material a bridge is made out of will affect the tone!
With floyd, you have whatever metal your manufacturer wants to use, you never really know what the metal really is. You can also but titanium saddles that you'll pass on to your great grandchildren or you can buy the graph techs, which im not too farmiliar with.
Kahler on the other hand lets you mix and match cams and saddles. with the selection of aircraft aluminum, brass, and stainless steel.

No i didnt change out the studs, the wolfie ones worked good.

Kellan · Post by **Kellan** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:10 am

You might want to try doing the studs. The two metals might (probably do, from what you're describing) have very different resonant properties and some of that is maybe getting lost when sound resonates in the bridge, studs, body, etc.

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:40 am

Kellan wrote:You might want to try doing the studs. The two metals might (probably do, from what you're describing) have very different resonant properties and some of that is maybe getting lost when sound resonates in the bridge, studs, body, etc.

It's worth a shot, i'll have to buy new studs though. The studs on the kramer screw right into the wood rather than studs n posts i believe they call it. I'd have to fill the holes in the wolvie if i were to do that.

Stealthy · Post by **Stealthy** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:42 am

I'm selling my Black Schaller Original Floyd Rose, PM me if interested, I got all the parts for it but It came with no nut...