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anybody know how i would be able to do this? replace my vintage tremlo on a guitar and add a floyd rose double locking one to it. thanks

also anybody know anything about the kahler tremlo bridges?

if its a normal strat...which I assume it is, youre gonna have to:

take the nut out, cut up the fretboard wood before the first fret (to fit the fatter floyd nut). Also, some floyd nuts are quot;bottom mountedquot; so you might have to drill two holes through the neck but there are also top mounted nuts (like what I use) where do dont have to drill as much

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drill holes for the floyd in the body (since floyds are two point trems and the vintage one uses 6 small screws)

I was actually thinking of doing this to my strat but I remember that it would cost a lot of money to do. You would have to find a floyd and then pay someone to do it proffesionally (you dont wanna be messing up with the drill and all the alignments yourself).

I would never add a Floyd to a good guitar.... The routing out and pain in the butt it is to add a Floyd to some guitars is not worth it... It can be done but you wreck the resale value of the guitar, you have to get the paint touched up, sometimes you need to change the frets and or fingerboard radius.... Rout out the nut area and maybe drill holes thru the neck.... It's much easier to make a Floyd guitar out of parts from Warmoth meant to have Floyds then to mod a guitar to have a floyd...

I may add a Floyd to a POS parts guitar i own. It's not worth anything so if i chew it up adding a floyd i don't care... It sounds amazing this guitar does but it's really dung.. It has the thickest sound! Like a Gibson LP but looks like a Strat.....

Not much to add on the Floyd except you can avoid a lot of the neck nastiness by putting a locking unit behind the nut. I did that on a floyd retrofit I did a couple years ago and it worked fine.
About 20 years ago, I put a Kahler on an Aria. It's a great unit that works as advertised but new ones are kinda pricey. The feel is much different from most traditional trems which may be good or bad depending on your taste.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend one for a guitar with a vintage trem because it involves even more routing than a Floyd. I got one for my guitar because it was a hardtail and that way I wouldn't have to rout the back side of the guitar.

Not a good idea man, a pain in the butt, and expensive.

I'm about to have my American Deluxe Strats' 2 point tremolo replaced with a vintage style 6 point. Simpler to set up and easier to play with that nice wide 57mm string spread.

lol , my ideas startin to sound like a bad one now. but anyway......thanks for the help


Originally Posted by dgk2448lol , my ideas startin to sound like a bad one now. but anyway......thanks for the helpWell ya if it's a good guitar i would leave it alone... on the other hand i'm adding a floyd to a old parts strat i have been abusing for years.. It had a Gotoh Vintage fender style 6 screw trem.. I'm pluging the 6 screw holes with wooden rods and then routing out a counter sunk floyd route..... Plus i'm routing out the nut on the strat for the nut.... hope it goes smoothly.... But it's not a good guitar as far as value and is worthless for resale so it should be a good guitar to add a Floyd.... But this strat is killer for tone! It's a extra light basswood body and the neck is a Birdseye no-name neck..... weird parts but together it sings!

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