Slightly bizarre problem, after using my whammy bar it managed to slip out of the mounting screw and stick out as shown in one of the pictures. It is probably because i used it too heavily, stupidly, but i have gotten it back into place like the second picture.
Do i just put something under the bridge to keep it up and restring like normal from this point?
(I can only post one picture, so to help describe i have gotten the bridge back under the mounting screws, obviously leaning back because there are no strings on the guitar right now)
Looks like it popped off the post. Now you’ve got the strings removed and the springs are pulling it down into the cavity. Yes push your whammy bar down to raise the base plate til it’s level with the body, then put somthing under there to prop it up as level as possible - some cards from a deck of cards, an eraser, a folded towel, anything that creates enough thickness to block and keep the base plate relatively level with the body. Then start to restring. Keep whatever block you’re using there until all your strings are on and you’re ready to start tightening them to tuning tension. Then remove it and tune tune tune. And tune. And tune. And tune.
Edited to add - you shouldn’t have to adjust the springs while tuning unless you’re using a different string gauge than what you had before. If that’s the case, you’ll have to watch the base plate level and try to adjust either the strings or the springs to get the base perfectly level as you get the strings to perfect tune. You’re after that perfect float, so sometimes if string gauge has changed, springs might have to be adjusted too.
While I don’t have a floyd rose. I do have a vibrato tail. Same thing happened to me. I don’t even know why it happened as I don’t use it heavy. But after correcting it. I just don’t even try to do dive bombs, not that I did before, but I can think of no other reason it would have jumped off the post.
So. I use my vibrato tail for just a wobble. It’s stayed put since.
Granted, best I understand, having a floyd rose is all about doing dive bombs.
So, I have no answer why it happened for you or me. Only that using mine lightly has kept it in place on it’s post.
fwiw, mine is a wilkensen 2 point vibrato tail.
Hope ya find a better answer than mine…
Good luck…
That looks to me that maybe there needs to be a bit more tension on the springs, when I had a guitar with a FR trem I always adjusted it so that the saddles were parallel to the body rather than the trem plate, too much up bend can break strings and reduce the amount of down bend available. It could also potentially affect the intonation.
