Battle of the Floyds: Gotoh vs. Schaller

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Can the shorter locking screws of the JT590 be reused on an OFR and Gotoh? You'd have the best of both worlds: The majority of the bridge would be OFR/Gotoh, but with the shorter JT590 screws.

No. The barrel width of the shorter Schaller made screws are wider and will not fit thru the opening on the bridge plate made for Gotoh/ OFR syle screws. I ran into this issue when trying to get a an OFR style trem on a Hamer Cali which came with the Schaller lic'd locking trem.
The solution, as it turns out, is pretty simple: Schaller makes shorter (38mm vs. the OFR's standard 44mm) Floyd-style screws that fit OFR's and the Schaller Lock Meister (their version of the OFR) and presumably the Gotoh.

I ordered a set on Reverb (from Russia) but found it a whole lot easier to order directly from Schaller in Germany.