High Plains Drifter
... drifting...
I'm looking at replacing a FR Special in my Schecter Sun Valley SS to an Original but hitting some roadblocks here-
I'm not wanting to spend an arm but I didn't realize upgrading a FR Special would be so costly. And digging deeper, seems that Original FR's are not exactly abundant around the web either... at least at the moment. I'm looking for black and that is limiting my choices even further. Stew Mac and Amazon are both out of black Original Floyd Rose. All Parts is out of black as well. On FR's site it looks like $247 for the whole shebang and that's a lot of scratch to try and quietly pull outta my wife's purse. Looks like in stock there but I dunno. Still need to figure out best plan of attack and more specifics because of the various offerings, models, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Radius on this guitar is 14" but I'm seeing 10" shimmed/ 12" without. Would a 12" FR work with a radius of 14"?
I know that I can just upgrade saddles but is that worth it while I've got everything pulled apart or should I go the extra step and replace the whole thing? FWIW I'm looking for more sustain and more stable tuning. Also I like the screw-in trem arm on the Original much better than the grub-screw arm on the Special so not sure if simply a saddle upgrade would yield much in the way of performance/ longevity as opposed to the Special with just upgraded saddles.
Should I be looking at Gotoh or Schaller?
I've replaced some Fender trems and TOM's but I've never messed with a Floyd. Anything that I might need additional?
Thanks for the help.
I'm not wanting to spend an arm but I didn't realize upgrading a FR Special would be so costly. And digging deeper, seems that Original FR's are not exactly abundant around the web either... at least at the moment. I'm looking for black and that is limiting my choices even further. Stew Mac and Amazon are both out of black Original Floyd Rose. All Parts is out of black as well. On FR's site it looks like $247 for the whole shebang and that's a lot of scratch to try and quietly pull outta my wife's purse. Looks like in stock there but I dunno. Still need to figure out best plan of attack and more specifics because of the various offerings, models, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Radius on this guitar is 14" but I'm seeing 10" shimmed/ 12" without. Would a 12" FR work with a radius of 14"?
I know that I can just upgrade saddles but is that worth it while I've got everything pulled apart or should I go the extra step and replace the whole thing? FWIW I'm looking for more sustain and more stable tuning. Also I like the screw-in trem arm on the Original much better than the grub-screw arm on the Special so not sure if simply a saddle upgrade would yield much in the way of performance/ longevity as opposed to the Special with just upgraded saddles.
Should I be looking at Gotoh or Schaller?
I've replaced some Fender trems and TOM's but I've never messed with a Floyd. Anything that I might need additional?
Thanks for the help.