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I was reading up on all the Floyd and copy bridges that have been made last night, as well as parts cats and yeah you can get the brass screws and bar assembly.
After comparing all the Ibanez Edge, Copies, offshoots, Licensed Floyds, ect and reading threads and every bodies opinions and a lot of false information
. Honestly imo the Floyd original is still the best design out there, (except for the way the bar is attached in my personal opinion.)
I hadn't heard about the new Schaller "Lockmeister" Floyd out though, and missed a thread here on it too. Looks like a good option for buying a new Floyd, nothing different about it except it's supposed to be of a harder material. Not that i've ever had a problem with the hardness of the original Floyds metal - So that one, the Original, or the Gotoh - and i can appreciate the standard Schaller floyd as well even though i don't like the idea of the metal inserts, and even if it's supposed to be a cheaper metal base, it does feel solid and weighty which is nice. Plus the locking screws not protruding out the back is probably one of the best things changed on a Floyd. But these are all basically near or exact copies to the bridge that has been the same and has just worked for millions since it came to be.
Ibanez has made some cool innovations in theory, and i've only ever briefly tried those bridges at Guitar Center or friends guitars but overall it still seems like the most revered version of the Edge is the first one that basically copies the Floyd pretty much to a T but just looks different.
So the main reason i say the old staple design is the best is - it just works as advertised. It's solid, and they will last and last and last. I've never had one go dull or not stay in tune or break..not that they don't ever but. I have 20 year old Floyds that work perfectly, and it doesn't have a thousand little parts to it that wear out, it's simple and efficient. While i looked and compared the Ibanez bridges i found a jillion people that had some part break or needed to replace for them, even seen a picture of one cracked in half? Dunno if it was a higher end version of the edge, but ..Try and crack a floyd in half! But this is partly i'm sure due to the sheer amount of people that play Ibanez and it being the internet but still, from my perception most people that have a problem with a Floyd Original seems to be people that just don't know how to set them up or some other obscure issue, and less to due with the unit itself.
After comparing all the Ibanez Edge, Copies, offshoots, Licensed Floyds, ect and reading threads and every bodies opinions and a lot of false information
. Honestly imo the Floyd original is still the best design out there, (except for the way the bar is attached in my personal opinion.) I hadn't heard about the new Schaller "Lockmeister" Floyd out though, and missed a thread here on it too. Looks like a good option for buying a new Floyd, nothing different about it except it's supposed to be of a harder material. Not that i've ever had a problem with the hardness of the original Floyds metal -
So that one, the Original, or the Gotoh - and i can appreciate the standard Schaller floyd as well even though i don't like the idea of the metal inserts, and even if it's supposed to be a cheaper metal base, it does feel solid and weighty which is nice. Plus the locking screws not protruding out the back is probably one of the best things changed on a Floyd. But these are all basically near or exact copies to the bridge that has been the same and has just worked for millions since it came to be.Ibanez has made some cool innovations in theory, and i've only ever briefly tried those bridges at Guitar Center or friends guitars but overall it still seems like the most revered version of the Edge is the first one that basically copies the Floyd pretty much to a T but just looks different.
So the main reason i say the old staple design is the best is - it just works as advertised. It's solid, and they will last and last and last. I've never had one go dull or not stay in tune or break..not that they don't ever but. I have 20 year old Floyds that work perfectly, and it doesn't have a thousand little parts to it that wear out, it's simple and efficient. While i looked and compared the Ibanez bridges i found a jillion people that had some part break or needed to replace for them, even seen a picture of one cracked in half? Dunno if it was a higher end version of the edge, but ..Try and crack a floyd in half!
But this is partly i'm sure due to the sheer amount of people that play Ibanez and it being the internet but still, from my perception most people that have a problem with a Floyd Original seems to be people that just don't know how to set them up or some other obscure issue, and less to due with the unit itself.
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