I'll trade my Tex-Mex fender for a guitar with a floyd rose.

[jimistone]

If you need a Floyd, nothing else will do. I find them such a pain (mostly cos I sell them to kids who don't know how to use them) that I have taken to deliberately setting up my own strat trems wrong ... loosening the screws and springs so the trem floats up a little so you have a bit of pull-up. A bit of Nut Sauce on the nut to keep it from going out of tune and you have a whole new world of trem-age.

If it works right....it's right.

The only way to properly use a strat trem and stay in tune is to set it with some upward swing.

It's the way Hendrix set his up, and I know of no strat player in history who had a better grasp of doing radical trem work and staying close to being in tune.

You have to be able to pull it up after a dive to acomplish that.

 

[noisedude]

If it works right....it's right.

The only way to properly use a strat trem and stay in tune is to set it with some upward swing.

It's the way Hendrix set his up, and I know of no strat player in history who had a better grasp of doing radical trem work and staying close to being in tune.

You have to be able to pull it up after a dive to acomplish that.

Everyone has their own ways ... you're a (really very good) blues player so I can see why you would want your trem that way. Most people who look at mine think I'm crazy for having it like that, but then most people round here play indie pop/rock rather than blues. Me, I just play crap.

I didn't know that was how Hendrix had his trems though ... guess that puts me in good company!!!