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penningtron wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:40 pm Yeah.. Strat-style is the only thing I see Floyds on that don’t scream Metal Guitar. Some soloist guitars look ok if it’s a plain finish and not too pointy.

It amuses me how knee-jerk I am about this stuff. Soloists always look fine with a floyd, it never looks out of place. But even on a strat I'm like eeehhhhh I dunno....acceptable if you play guitar in Iron Maiden or are EVH but otherwise....I don't love it.

But on a tele? Absolutely not. Bigsby or GTFO. A Jazzmaster could potentially look ok with one but who would do that?

On a Gibson? Punishable by death.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Soloists always look fine with a floyd,... A Jazzmaster could potentially look ok with one but who would do that?

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MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:15 am

penningtron wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:40 pm Yeah.. Strat-style is the only thing I see Floyds on that don’t scream Metal Guitar. Some soloist guitars look ok if it’s a plain finish and not too pointy.

It amuses me how knee-jerk I am about this stuff. Soloists always look fine with a floyd, it never looks out of place. But even on a strat I'm like eeehhhhh I dunno....acceptable if you play guitar in Iron Maiden or are EVH but otherwise....I don't love it.

But on a tele? Absolutely not. Bigsby or GTFO. A Jazzmaster could potentially look ok with one but who would do that?

On a Gibson? Punishable by death.

You're entitled to this belief as long as you admit that it's a purely stylistic choice, not a functional one. Bigsbys can be fun if you mount one or more strings in reverse so they bend up when the rest bend down, but it's an otherwise primitive design. Tele bridges are also kind of garbage, though I understand why people think they're critical to the Tele twang. I prefer the form factor of a Babicz or other well-designed Strat style trem, but nothing has the accuracy of a Floyd.

mdc wrote:

How anyone can bemoan this aesthetically is beyond me. Soooo hottt

Yeah. I wouldn't replicate everything about it (pickup choice, and I think the top frets are scalloped) but as a proof of concept I like it. The large offset body makes the Floyd hardware look appropriately scaled.

mdc wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:23 pm

Fuckin' would

Yeah I would too. That looks great.

penningtron wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:10 pm Yeah. I wouldn't replicate everything about it (pickup choice, and I think the top frets are scalloped) but as a proof of concept I like it. The large offset body makes the Floyd hardware look appropriately scaled.

I think the Jazzmaster body shape is just so cool it's tough to make it look bad. You could build something like that for under a grand if you finished it yourself.

I have a soft spot for the metallifiction of classic guitar shapes. See: schecter and the teisco spectrum.

Huge fan of esp vipers over here.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:44 pm You could build something like that for under a grand if you finished it yourself.

True but most likely this will be an econo experiment (if that, I need sit on it a bit), something along the lines this. I don’t love the PRS-y headstock, but it’s better than some reverse pointy thing.

ChudFusk wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:14 pm Bigsbys can be fun if you mount one or more strings in reverse so they bend up when the rest bend down, but it's an otherwise primitive design.

I can see how Bigsbys might be "primitive" but who cares about how old a design something is? It either does what you want or it doesn't. Gibson absolutely innovated with robotic tuners - they made existing tuning machines look primitive, but primitive kinda won out. Also the Floyd Rose will be 50 next year.