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Can I setup my variax standard bridge to be floating?


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I adjusted my bridge to be floating and it works great. But mine is set up Bigsby-style, with only a semitone available upwards. I don't know how stable tuning would be if you routinely bend higher than that. The Standard bridge is nowhere near as advanced as a FR.

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A Strat style tremolo only floats from how much spring tension you let off for the tremolo to angle off the guitar, meanwhile a floyd rose has a cavity under the trem for it to float in more room which allows bends up. 

 

You should be able to make a Standard float to some extent if you back off the springs.

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Can the tremolo be replaced with something else if the piezo saddles are kept intact, or are their more electronics built into the actual bridge plate?  For example, could a Floyd Rose "Rail Tail" bridge that is made to work with a standard Strat 6-hole mount be fitted to a Variax Standard?

 

Just curious.

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Unlikely. If the bridge is anything like the ones on the JTV 69, then the piezo leads run through a hole in the sustain block, and are connected to a small circuit board fixed to the opposite side.

 

Yeah, that's what I was wondering - has anyone seen the underside of the standard bridge/tailpiece? 

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