Guitar not staying in tune

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I'm getting by with 2 springs in one of my guitars, which is a Xaviere Strat copy with a Wilkenson vibrato. As Drew said, different trems, different springs and strings, may require a different number of springs to achieve tension equilibrium.
 
To everyone who helped, thanks!

I've adjusted my guitar to a perfect shape now - the bridge is parallel to the body and it stays in perfect tuning even during divebombs and stuff.

Yeah, I still had three springs even in that photo, hard to believe right? I have tightened the spring screws and adjusted the action so that it's now parallel. Don't know what made it SO angular in the first place, I didn't have to do a great amount of tightening.

Kudos!
 
annihilator said:
To everyone who helped, thanks!

I've adjusted my guitar to a perfect shape now - the bridge is parallel to the body and it stays in perfect tuning even during divebombs and stuff.

Yeah, I still had three springs even in that photo, hard to believe right? I have tightened the spring screws and adjusted the action so that it's now parallel. Don't know what made it SO angular in the first place, I didn't have to do a great amount of tightening.

Kudos!
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Great! I'm glad to hear it. Hopefully we helped even though your thread got caught in the middle of an unfortunate ongoing war that has infested several threads lately.
 
annihilator said:
To everyone who helped, thanks!

I've adjusted my guitar to a perfect shape now - the bridge is parallel to the body and it stays in perfect tuning even during divebombs and stuff.

Yeah, I still had three springs even in that photo, hard to believe right? I have tightened the spring screws and adjusted the action so that it's now parallel. Don't know what made it SO angular in the first place, I didn't have to do a great amount of tightening.

Kudos!
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Kickass, man. :D You probably just went up to a heavier gauge of strings or something.

Another thing with, well, with all bridges but that's doubly true for floating bridges is you REALLY need to stretch the strings out first, before you can get a floating trem to hold tune. I generally kind of "snap" on the strings and pull on them as I'm tuning up, to stretch them out - I'll do that maybe two or three times, until a string basically returns to pitch when I let it go (whereas the first time it'll often be something like a half step flat when I pull it away from the body and let go), before I move on and start the next string.

One a double locking trem is set up right and the strings are broken in, as long as the strings are locked down, your knife edges are clean and even, and your nut or trem studs aren't loose, they'll do a spectacular job of staying in tune. :)
 
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