NEW FLOYD FOR $79

[heem6]

This is the new Gotoh licensed Floyd Rose. If you are familiar with Gotoh, you'll know they are the company that makes the outstanding Ibanez Edge trems. They also make a higher-priced version of this trem that IMO is waaay better than the OFR's being made now.

This one is designed to go head to head with the Floyd Rose Special, which is just a regular cheapy licensed Floyd. This Gotoh has the solid steel baseplate and hardened knife edges. It should sound better then the FR Special, which has cheap zinc saddles and baseplate.

The only place I can see that they saved money was putting a small block on this one - 31 mm's to fit all guitars. I'm not so sure this one would fit a flush mounted guitar though. In any case, this is likely a quality trem, that you could upgrade down the line with one of the BIG BLOCK sustain blocks now being made.


store.guitarfetish.com/nehedudulofl.html

[nickwellings]

Another cost saving thing maybe is the unremovable/unadjustable arm?

Or so it looks? It looks like the trem I had on a Jackson PS4 and my Squier Showmaster, like you can't take off the collar and it's just stuck in there...? Could not see too well.

[heem6]

Yeah, that is an old-type screw on arm huh?

My other Gotoh's have an allen screw that pushes up against the arm from the back of the arm assembly, allowing you to tighten or loosen the arm's "swing" movement. I would hope this had the same feature.

[nickwellings]

The proper floyds I have, have a collar on the arm that screws onto the floyd. Then under the baseplate of the floyd there's a cylinder thing, with an allen screw head on the bottom. The arm basically goes into the cylinder...

[kdee]

It reminds me the Ping trems that Wolfgangs are equiped with.

Nice quality,thanks for the heads up man!

[rickblacker]

Hey Jim, do you think this one is better than the one on the Strikers?