"The Key"

[nateb]

Has anyone tried this tool for setting floyd rose intonation? How successful of a experience did you have?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=7266

Also, in the search for buying equipment for doing my own setup's, can anyone recommend a good tuner for the job? Or, does a basic tuner do the job?

-Nate

[Bengal65]

Looks like the tool should work, but I don't have any experience with one. For tuning, any tuner will work, but the best IMO is a Strobe like the one's made by Peterson.

[nateb]

Thank you once again Bengal =)

-Nate

[toejam]

I've got one. I haven't used it yet, but I've got one! It should work easy enough, though. You just put it on the locking clamp and adjust.

[fett]

Looks neat. But it takes all the fun out of using your fingernail and trying to lock the screw with the other hand.:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: How do you get the Allen Wrench into the hole if the string is in the way?

[nateb]

How do you get the Allen Wrench into the hole if the string is in the way?

Excellent point young jedi.... I guess once you get it set properly, detune the string and tighten up the saddle screw.

-Nate

[fett]

That makes sense. Doh:ROTF: . But that's no fun.:ROTF: I have nothing but time, so I would rather spend hours doing something like floyding around with a Fuck.:ROTF: :ROTF:

[Budman68]

no need to detune the string, just move the string over with your dickbeaters and tighten the damn thing!

by the way, I have one of these and they work great for original floyds!

[fett]

Why make a complicated thing easy? Then you can't get pissed off and spend hours doing it and then get it done and feel happy?:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF:

[Budman68]

I've had waaaayyy too much experience doing that so I gave it up for the easy way out from now on......... :ROTF:

[fett]

I've had waaaayyy too much experience doing that so I gave it up for the easy way out from now on......... :ROTF:

Ya, but you have a life and a tool and I have neither.:ROTF: :ROTF:

[RobRR]

How do you get the Allen Wrench into the hole if the string is in the way?

Ball end allens rock.

[Bengal65]

In looking at the tool, you can only move the saddle back and not forward. Seems like it could have been made better by making a piece that is adjustable from the rear of the string clamping screw.

[fett]

WTF!!!! I see how it works and it will do both ways.

[QuantumRider]

It takes me at least an hour to intonate a Floyd. I tune to pitch, check the intonation, then detune so that I can loosen the saddle lock screw. After moving the saddle forward or backward, I tighten the saddlw lock screw, tune to pitch again, and check the intonation again. I rarely get it spot on on the first or second try. Multiply the time consumed and frustration caused thereby by 6, and you get the idea.

I wish I had a "key". They don't make them anymore, or at least they don't sell them where I live