It looked interesting, and i remember not liking intonating the old original floyd i did for a friend once, just for its tedious nature.

Also, it is again a device so simple, that i may try to create one. Basically two bent strips of metal, two threaded holes, a spring and a long threaded bolt. I think building one would be slightly more tedious(cutting the slot, getting the angles right to sit flat when tightened, etc.) than doing the intonation itself without one, but it might be an interesting project to fuck around with.

I don't know for sure that would be an upgrade from the JT6, which is actually a pretty okay LFR, especially compared to what is coming out in piles from china right now.

What do the knife edges(the pivot points) look like on your JT6? If they are clean looking and not all dented/cut up, then you probably would just need to adjust the thing, maybe get some new springs for the back, to tighten it up.

The knife edges are the biggest thing. The studs can also get toasted, but they are easily replaced. Almost everything is easily replaced, but you need to have that solid backplate with the hardened knife edges correctly machined, or you are always going to have problems. If your JT6 looks good there, and none of its screws/bolts are stripped(the main problem as i understand it, with the older licensed floyds, seems to have something to do with the quality of the metal used in the screws, possibly more than the other parts) then you should be able to give it a tune up and make it work nice.

Also, a trem stabilizer can work for that, especially one like the one that tor posted. It preloads the bridge with enough tension that it will still work as a tremolo, but will be much tighter.

I only say this, because i once bought the "premium" strat bridge from GFS, and despite the marketing hype, the metal they made the base out of wore very quickly, and you can see in its bearing edges and on its surface, where the intonation screws gouged into it and its bearing edges, even after only like five months of use. So when they say something is "super nice" i remain skeptical. It does look good, but i remain skeptical, because i was not at all impressed by the 'super nice' metal in this strat bridge. The string saddles were okay though, i eventually moved them to a normal cheapo hardtail strat style bridgeplate from an 80s japanese guitar, which was about a thousand times higher quality metal than the GFS plate.

Basically, as i have seen from looking at all of this stuff for a while now, is that there seem to be certain manufacturing realities, and i suspect that they are more material-based than construction quality based.

The Shit Realm is $14-35 and there are about three main chinese designs in it, two OFR-style(one original, one kind of sort of like the schaller design) and one lo-profile/Pro style one. Everything about them is cheap looking, and it is all bad metal involved(hmmm...).

The Less Shit Realm jumps up to about $65-90 and that is where the GFS trems(one kind of oddball speedloader(but not for the special floyd strings), one original(the one you poasted)) live. It is also where the actual Floyd Rose Special lives. The Special looks to be basically exactly what the top end GFS is, just made by Floyd, in Korea. I feel like these are likely to be more or less interchangable, quality-wise. They seem to use better metal than the Shit Realm, but you will also find tons of people complaining about the metal quality and wear problems with all of these, if you read around.

From there you only have a couple of real choices, the extremely high quality Schaller licensed one for about $160, or the actual real deal official Floyd for about $200something. Either one of these is basically the best around in steel floyds.

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