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So I recently aquired a early 90's Charvel with a Licensed Floyd tremolo.
Somewhere along the line the metal anchors that held the threaded knife edge bolts for the tremolo began to come loose. The previous owner, in his infinite wisdom, super-glued the anchors into the guitar body. Not realizing that the glue would get into the anchors and actually cease all future adjustment of bridge hight possibility.
I laughed pretty hard as I held my head in my hands for a good five minutes. I tried everything. Drilling them, Yanking on them with channel locks, you name it. Finally I decided it would be best to drill through from the back to the bottom of the anchors and hammer them out with a nail punch. Whala. Whaddaya know, it worked. But those knife edge bolts will never turn again. LOL. The nice part is that the back tremolo cavity cover covers the holes. The bad part is the knife edge bolt holes to all the way through, so now I think I may need to put some dowels in there with a good wood glue and call it a day.
Moral of the story...if you're going to glue in your tremolo anchors...(which is goofy) take the knife edge bolts out first. Whew!!!!!!!!!
-Chad
Somewhere along the line the metal anchors that held the threaded knife edge bolts for the tremolo began to come loose. The previous owner, in his infinite wisdom, super-glued the anchors into the guitar body. Not realizing that the glue would get into the anchors and actually cease all future adjustment of bridge hight possibility.
I laughed pretty hard as I held my head in my hands for a good five minutes. I tried everything. Drilling them, Yanking on them with channel locks, you name it. Finally I decided it would be best to drill through from the back to the bottom of the anchors and hammer them out with a nail punch. Whala. Whaddaya know, it worked. But those knife edge bolts will never turn again. LOL. The nice part is that the back tremolo cavity cover covers the holes. The bad part is the knife edge bolt holes to all the way through, so now I think I may need to put some dowels in there with a good wood glue and call it a day.
Moral of the story...if you're going to glue in your tremolo anchors...(which is goofy) take the knife edge bolts out first. Whew!!!!!!!!!
-Chad
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