Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I got his 2006 strat.It's a cool guitar,but for some reason I feel something is missing.Do you think I should put a Floyd on it?

I wouldn't, Mitch but it's your guitar. I have one on a top of the range Ibanez and it's a right royal pain!!

It's a hardtail. Do you just mean a regular Strat tremolo?

I keed! I keed!

put a floyd on it if you want it to sound like ****!

I would feel like something's missing as well, if I had a Strat without a whammy bar.

So far as I know, Floyd Rose tremolo units need the same rear cavity routing that a regular Strat tremolo does, while needing an even deeper routing than a regular Strat tremolo does on the top. A Kahler unit, which I'm not sure is even made anymore, doesn't need a rear cavity for all the springs, but still needs a routing in the top. I've heard that a Kahler unit does not sustain nearly as well as a Floyd Rose or a Strat tremolo. I don't know this for a fact, but I heard that a number of times back in the 80s, though who knows whether it was actually the case, or just an oft repeated myth. I don't know.

It might be cheaper to either get a new licensed Strat body that's routed for tremolo and buy a Fender tremolo unit, than to have the body routed out and the unit installed. I don't know. You might also consider trading or selling the hardtail Strat and buying one with a tremolo. It's up to you.

I had a strat a while back, and I always thought the vibrato was annoying, so I can dig the hardtail. Strats aren't really my thing though, if I was going to get another Fender it would be a mustang or a jaguar.

I've always preferred the hardtail Strats.

I like my strat's tail lifted slightly, don't need the whammy, just use my palm for a mellow vibrato.

That works for me too, Jerry...... not that I use it much. No desperate fumbling for the arm!

teeder wrote:I've always preferred the hardtail Strats.

Yeah,I was only joking,I like hardtails also.Fender stopped making them in 2006.Lack of interest?

Leave it alone..get another one with a "vibrato"

Dat's a beaut, Mitch!

Thanks alot guys,I really appreciate it.