I recently decided to play my guitar again, i have a Yamaha ERG 121 which i got a few years ago when i was younger, so i decided to restring it since they were pretty dull.
so i got the strings which are Ernie Ball Beefy Slinky's and and one by one swapped them over with the old ones, as i start to tune it i noticed that what was happening was that the bridge (which i believe is called a floating bridge) starts to raise up, which just messes up all the other strings, i'm quite uninformed on the technical side of guitars so not 100% sure why this is happening but i had a look in the back and with some of my common sense (or lack of :P) think it could be to do with the springs or that the gauge on the string is to high for my guitar!
could really use some help :)
Thnx in advance
Will
I think you bought some pretty hard core strings there!
I think on that bridge it will be natural for it to raise as you put more tension on the strings... you're going to have to tune and retune to get them all right.
by the way this is a floating bridge:
notice it's taped down, because without the tension of the strings (ie during restringing) the bridge falls off and you have to re-position it for proper intonation. I learned that one the hard way lol.
Let us know how it sounds!
hmmm that image didn't work :P
but thnx for the advice, i'll keep trying to tune it,
when i say it raises i mean sort of probally half an inch which seems kinda high to me, don't wana put too much strain on it. i've actually managed to get all teh strings in tune at once which is an improvement from earlier :P
I don't have much experience with those types of bridges, but that seems pretty high to me. I'd consider using lighter strings or I also think there might be a set screw you can use to take the tremolo function out of the bridge and just hold it down, if you're ok with that. I'm a little out of my league!
Hi ckywill,
Floating trems can be a bit tricky, but have a look at these videos. They do a lot to take the mystery out of the setup. You should be able to get it back into adjustment following these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzlvIxlEV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fkQWfhnVNw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwNVjNohOt4
Cheers,
kat :)
