Guitarjon
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So I'm having some really strange Floyd Rose issues and I could really use some help.
I have owned a few Floyd Rose guitars and still own an LTD Kh602. That guitar stays in tune so well. Just like how you would expect a Floyd to function.
I decided to buy a new LTD, in this case an MH1000fr to tune in E standard with 09's. (The KH is in E flat with 10's.)
So my brand new LTD arrived in the mail last week and everything was working perfectly like you would expect. I always use elixir so I put a set of 09's on the new guitar. This is where the trouble started.
I stretched the strings and everything, locked the nut .
After the first divebomb I did the strings go out of tune, or at least some of them. At first i thought, oh well, new strings, perhaps they need to be stretched some more. So I stretched them again and locked the nut again. Once again perfectly in tune until I use the whammy a bit, namely some dive bombing. So I did some experimenting.
Leave the nut locked and tune with the fine tuners. Dive bomb again and retune. Did this a couple of times and after a few minutes the strings do decide to stay in tune.
If I unlock the nut, tune the strings and lock it again the exact same thing happens.
For me this isn't good, when you lock the nut the guitar should stay in tune. Except for maybe a little bit of fine tuning after locking the nut.
This led me to believe the batch of strings I got were maybe bad so I put a set of daddarios on there to test. The Floyd functions properly again, so no strange behaviour.
Hmmm, so as I always use elixirs I had to put another set on there again.
And the same problem happened again unfortunately.
With the exact same procedure only this time I really paid attention putting the strings on there and stretching them properly.
All of this led me to believe that the Floyd Rose was faulty so I sent the guitar back.
Now I ordered another one of the same model but from another store.
I just put some elixirs on there and damn, same problem.
I don't know what to do anymore.
Is anyone here familiar with Floyd problems and elixirs?
Sorry for the long story and thanks for the help!
I have owned a few Floyd Rose guitars and still own an LTD Kh602. That guitar stays in tune so well. Just like how you would expect a Floyd to function.
I decided to buy a new LTD, in this case an MH1000fr to tune in E standard with 09's. (The KH is in E flat with 10's.)
So my brand new LTD arrived in the mail last week and everything was working perfectly like you would expect. I always use elixir so I put a set of 09's on the new guitar. This is where the trouble started.
I stretched the strings and everything, locked the nut .
After the first divebomb I did the strings go out of tune, or at least some of them. At first i thought, oh well, new strings, perhaps they need to be stretched some more. So I stretched them again and locked the nut again. Once again perfectly in tune until I use the whammy a bit, namely some dive bombing. So I did some experimenting.
Leave the nut locked and tune with the fine tuners. Dive bomb again and retune. Did this a couple of times and after a few minutes the strings do decide to stay in tune.
If I unlock the nut, tune the strings and lock it again the exact same thing happens.
For me this isn't good, when you lock the nut the guitar should stay in tune. Except for maybe a little bit of fine tuning after locking the nut.
This led me to believe the batch of strings I got were maybe bad so I put a set of daddarios on there to test. The Floyd functions properly again, so no strange behaviour.
Hmmm, so as I always use elixirs I had to put another set on there again.
And the same problem happened again unfortunately.
With the exact same procedure only this time I really paid attention putting the strings on there and stretching them properly.
All of this led me to believe that the Floyd Rose was faulty so I sent the guitar back.
Now I ordered another one of the same model but from another store.
I just put some elixirs on there and damn, same problem.
I don't know what to do anymore.
Is anyone here familiar with Floyd problems and elixirs?
Sorry for the long story and thanks for the help!