Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

[nexion218]

Re: Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

Has anyone in here ever dealt with Black Cherry USA? I admit I'm a sucker for trying out gadgets and a few days ago I decided to give these a whirl. If nothing else, they will look cool. Only problem is that I have not received any sort of confirmation from them after payment and no response for my e-mail inquiry either...

[Chistopher]

Re: Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

This might be a bit older of a thread but I don't care. I've read through this entire thread astonished at how it seems 99% miss the entire point. First, if $60 bucks is to expensive to justify get another hobby and a new job! Regardless of it being a little easier or not to set the intonation, you are adding mass to the bridge and it will add sustain and tone. Some of you are going to say it will be miniscule, well it all adds up. Several tiny mods making a miniscule of difference suddenly become a major difference. Not to mention I'm willing to bet for many that miniscule differe3nce is how good of an ear you have verses the difference it made in the first place.

Who's to say the change in tone will be a good one? If I had an issue with my tone and $60 bucks to play around with, mods to the intonation adjustment on my Floyd Rose would be at the bottom of the list. I could change magnets, string type, and pot values and get five times as far for a fifth of the price.

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

I’ve tried these. For the intonation aspect hey work fine. But the issue I had was that they interfered with the full travel of the fine tuners.
With the fine tuner screw inside the groove, the hollow point contacted the underside of the whale tail so it prohibited the adjustments full range of motion as you loosened the fine tuner.
I ended up taking them off.
I had them installed on an OFR.

[Mincer]

Re: Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

It just seems like overkill for something you'd set once or twice and forget about it. If you want to add mass, get a bigger block.

[80's_Metal]

Re: Floyd Rose Hollow Points??

I'd buy them if they were $29, but not $60.