Members electricface Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Is it possible to install a floyd rose tremolo on a chambered les paul? I know they're routed something like this: Is there enough wood to anchor a floyd, springs, etc. without the guitar imploding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jnurp Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 i would rather kiss a toothless homeless dude than defile a les paul with a trem....dont do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members electricface Posted February 10, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Enjoy your homless romanticism. I'm asking a valid question about something I'm going to have a licensed professional preform on a guitar which I own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oblivion DC Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Enjoy your homless romanticism. I'm asking a valid question about something I'm going to have a licensed professional preform on a guitar which I own. Most of the civilized world thinks a floyd on a les paul is an abomination. Judging from the chambered pic you posted I'd say there's no way that's gonna work. But if you do get it done - pics or GTFO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sardocasm Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 The world needs abominations. Without abominations to contrast there is no such thing as beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oblivion DC Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 The world needs abominations. Without abominations to contrast there is no such thing as beauty. and yet, you still have that poor girl in your avatar posed with a bag on her head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dropsix Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Is it possible to install a floyd rose tremolo on a chambered les paul? I know they're routed something like this: Is there enough wood to anchor a floyd, springs, etc. without the guitar imploding? lol wait a minute, they chop THAT MUCH wood out of the LPs?:lol:Do not want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 "Chambered" is an understatement, that's a {censored}ing hollowbody. They're selling those as Les Pauls now? How long has this been going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keithcar Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 "Chambered" is an understatement, that's a {censored}ing hollowbody. They're selling those as Les Pauls now? How long has this been going on? for a while now. as far as i know its been a LOOONG time since a les paul was solid on the inside. I think most that arent chambered nowadays are swiss cheese on the inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Yeah, I just talked to a friend who knows more about LPs than I do, he says chambering/weight relief started in 1988, and according to him the chambered ones sound quite different from the swiss cheese ones (the swiss cheese weight relieved guitars apparently sound more like classic LPs, while chambered LPs have a bit of mellowness to them by way of comparison). I don't think I'd want either of them, though, and the non-chambered/WR are among the more expensive production LPs, so it's pretty much out of the question. I'll stick with my strats/superstrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sardocasm Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 At least the SGs are safe...for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DirtyBird Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Wow... I was going to (As a user of Floyds) suggest you not do it... but after seeing the abomination those things are from teh factory, {censored}.... you cant make it any worse. I'd suggest just doinga dive-only setup, but you still gotta rout out the trem cavity and such. Meh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Check out the Stetsbar, expensive but a good product. It's a surface-mount trem system that uses the Tune-o-matic posts and doesn't require any modification to your guitar. Stays in tune and allows you to go up and down. Not Floyd-crazy but you've got your divebombs and your squealies Up-bends are limited by how much clearance you've got of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 Bigsbys are allowed but not a FLOYD! Personally I like the idea of a chambered Les Paul. Billy Gibbons has one like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 not all new LP's are chambered guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members .homewrecker. Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 not all new LP's are chambered guys. No Heritages are unless you order it that way You guys are acting like this is something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oblivion DC Posted February 10, 2009 Members Share Posted February 10, 2009 No Heritages are unless you order it that way You guys are acting like this is something new. I think most folks just didn't realize how drastic the "chambering" was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 LP Studios, Classics, and Standards are chambered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 And BFGs, that's a BFG in that pic I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sardocasm Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 They're still making BFGs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 Check out the Stetsbar, expensive but a good product. It's a surface-mount trem system that uses the Tune-o-matic posts and doesn't require any modification to your guitar. Stays in tune and allows you to go up and down. Not Floyd-crazy but you've got your divebombs and your squealies Up-bends are limited by how much clearance you've got of course. I'd second this just based on what the website says. There are also a few other flatmount trems, like the Washburn Wonder-bar and I think Kahler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jerseyboy62 Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 lol wait a minute, they chop THAT MUCH wood out of the LPs? Do not want +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 If anything is an abomination to a les paul it would be a bigsby. Ha Ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DirtyBird Posted February 11, 2009 Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 Are Epiphones weight relieved like this? Chambered and cheesed? Or are they still solid chunks of wood? Found an interesting thread via google: http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/gibson-les-pauls/1450-weight-relieve-vs-chambered-2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members electricface Posted February 11, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 11, 2009 Check out the Stetsbar, expensive but a good product. It's a surface-mount trem system that uses the Tune-o-matic posts and doesn't require any modification to your guitar. Stays in tune and allows you to go up and down. Not Floyd-crazy but you've got your divebombs and your squealies Up-bends are limited by how much clearance you've got of course. I tried one. It felt like a spaghetti noodle, and sounded like there was a pillow under the strings. Maybe it was a poor setup, or the 1989 LP it was on sucked from the factory, but I'm NEVER using a setsbar. That, and it costs nearly as much as the guitar I'm putting it on cost me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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