Change Floyd rose Guitar's String

Changing strings on a guitar with a Floyd rose can be tricky to do the first time. Its not very hard but you have to know how to do. So here is an ible on how to change your strings with a Floyd rose! I know there is a lot of step but its better to be clear than to be all messy so nobody understand! Feel free to tell if I made mistakes in my texts !

So whats a Floyd Rose?!

A Floyd Rose is a system on some guitar that let you do some big dive with the whammy bar without detuning the strings because of his strings locking system.(Strings are locked on the bridge and on the head part of the guitar) The bridge on the guitar is support by spring locate inside the body on the guitar and the tension of them need to be equal to the strings tension or else the bridge will dive in or out of the body.The Floyd rose let the guitar player make a variety of other sounds with the tremolo!

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Step 1 Material

Here are the few things you will need to change your string(s)..

• Your guitar with Floyd Rose
• The string(s) you want to change
• Cutter or Multi-tool
• Allen key the size of your Floyd's screws
• Guitar/Bass/Violin Tuner
• Not Show - Something able to hold your bridge

Comments

[iamtoats]

 damn, you have short bridge screws...

I like to use part of a deck of cards to hold the bridge up. It's a nice fit, and fully adjustable.

I find that the way you tune your strings.... doesn't work. It takes forever, and doesn't stay in tune.

I tighten the springs up, support the bridge level with the body (with the cards) then tune up (the other strings shouldn't go flat!), then loosten tue screws until the cards fall out.

Then just adjust a little with the fine tuners....

[corey_caffeine]

it may just be the bridge, alot of lower end liscensed floyd rose bridges don't stay in tune at all

[pauliebird1]

You should remove the trebble strings first, to prevent overloading and breaking them

[z-man6233]

they won't break and if they do its time to change them anyway

[Patented]

What do you mean by the trebble string?s

[peach_fart]

the thin, unwound strings.

[Re-design]

Nice explanation and nice photos. I like the you show someone actually doing some of the steps. That's sometimes kind of hard if you're the photog and the model.

[Patented]

Thx! For my picture I use a tripod and I put my camera on timer mode so I can use my both hand in the picture!

[wayne6412]

Good Instructible:) Your instruction's are really accurate, but I wanted to add this little short-cut that I've used over the year's and save's quite a bit of time. This work's on Original Floyd Rose's and probably on most copy's. Try using Fender Bullet string's with the little bullet on the end instead of the brass ring with the string winding's. Run the plain end of the string through the tuning peg at the headstock until you reach the end with the bullet. The bullet will not go through the hole, which kind of anchor's the string, thus not having to trim the string. Proceed down to the bridge, and keep a fair amount of tension on the string and trim the access and lock it in the bridge. This has alway's worked well for me, and preventing too many wraps at the tuning key. I just thought I'd add this little instructible, maybe you'll find it useful! Thanks:)

[caitlinsdad]

It would be of interest to all if you mentioned that the Floyd Rose is a type of tremelo/whammy bar familiar to the general public. If you are not an electric guitar player, you probably will not know why it would be difficult to change the strings because of what it is designed to do.

[Patented]

Nice idea, I put a link of the wikipedia definition!

[caitlinsdad]

Tis better to explain in your own words. Lends credibility to know that you know what you are doing.

[Patented]

true

[norsehorse]

What does the dice do? As soon as you pull it out, the spring tension will stretch the strings out of tune, and the bridge will sink into the body which would throw off the action. Just saying.

[Patented]

Its because with some kinds of Floyd rose, the bridge screw that let you loosen the strings are at the very end of the Floyd rose so when the string are loose at the other side (head part) the Floyd will dive in so you cant loosen the screws.But I didn't explain it very well so I will check that out! Thx figuring that out!

[Patented]

I Also forgot to mention that all the other strings will be out of tune

[norsehorse]

Ah I see. Mine is different it has the screws on the top near the fine tuners. I've never run into that problem. I'm also pretty sure my Floyd Rose isn't an Original Floyd Rose so thats probably why.

[DIYDragon]

Ah, thanks for this. I bought an older guitar with a Floyd Rose on it, and it's much different than my other guitar's bridge style. Maybe I'll break it out again, and mess with it. :|

[Ibanezfoo]

Pretty good. Its a little easier if you use a shim under the bridge or a block between the sustain block and the body in the back. It keeps the bridge in place when the tension is lessened by removing strings.

[Patented]

Yeah I know.. Its because its not totaly finished cuz I really want to post it.. Generally I put stack of pics to support the bridge but if you only change 1 string you dont need to. But thx I will add a step tonigh!!

[Gypsyman]

on my floyd rose i never had to cut the ball off. It went through the body.

[Patented]

Oh really?! I never saw that but ill mention it on my ible! Thx!!