Dec 14, 2017 Don't let anyone tell you it is too inconvinent or expensive to block a floyd rose tremolo. This is the true cost. May 18, 2008 If a guitar doesnt have a whammy bar can you install one? And if you can how much $ does it cost?
Best Answer: It depends on what kind of guitar you have and how it was designed. If, for example, you have a stratocaster with a fixed bridge (no whammy bar) it would be quite a lot of work to install a tremolo bridge (whammy). You would have to make a cavity in the back of the guitar to accommodate tension springs and so forth. It CAN be done, but my advice would be to expand your horizons, save up and buy another guitar that does have a whammy bar so you don't run the risk of losing the tonality of your current guitar by heavily modding it. Also, floyd rose bridges are good for whammy, but would require even MORE modifications and are an absolute pain to tune correctly if you play in different tunings. Well, it depends if your guitar came with a whammy bar thing built in it (like a place to screw in your whammy bar), because some guitars, such as Gibson, don't install things for whammy bars.
And I've never heard of anyone installing a whammy bar into their guitar, and I don't know if it would work, because whammy bars have to do a certain thing to your strings in order to make the cool sounds. But you can ask like, a guitar specialist, or someone at a guitar place, like Sam Ash or Guitar Center, and see what they say. Yes you can have one installed. Doing so requires you buy a new bridge (tremelo) and either have it installed or you can mess it up yourself if you have the proper tools and skill. The body of the guitar needs to be routed for the new bridge to fit and a new nut installed if you want locking.
Floyd Rose has instructions and routing templates here. The bridge and professional installation will cost hundreds of dollars (depending on bridge model). So find a bridge, and get some prices on installation, then after that look to see if you're better off getting a used guitar with one already installed as a cheaper alternative.
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It will vary depending on the type of tremelo and buitar you are doing this modification to however, this should give you a start. Basicly your going to need to measure your tremelo and lay it out onto the guitar.
Then you will need to define the cavity where it will set. Nex you need to mask off the guitar body except for the shape you drew/refined. The life and times of judge roy bean. Next you need to take you router and adjust it to match the depth of the tremelo and cut/carve the shape or cavity out of the body. Next using a dremel, sand away till its nice and smoot. Now check you studs and see where they fit in the cavity and mark there position. Next use a matching drill bit and drill out a hole for the stuf to mount the tremello to the guitar. Assemble the tremello and the rest of the guitar.You may want to coat the inside of the tremelo cavity withs some sound dampering paint.
This will make it sound better and also will prevent any outside radio waves from interfering with your electric guitar's. It will vary depending on the type of tremelo and buitar you are doing this modification to however, this should give you a start. Basicly your going to need to measure your tremelo and lay it out onto the guitar. Then you will need to define the cavity where it will set.
Nex you need to mask off the guitar body except for the shape you drew/refined. Next you need to take you router and adjust it to match the depth of the tremelo and cut/carve the shape or cavity out of the body. Next using a dremel, sand away till its nice and smoot. Now check you studs and see where they fit in the cavity and mark there position. Next use a matching drill bit and drill out a hole for the stuf to mount the tremello to the guitar. Assemble the tremello and the rest of the guitar.You may want to coat the inside of the tremelo cavity withs some sound dampering paint. This will make it sound better and also will prevent any outside radio waves from interfering with your electric guitar's.
That depends on wat u mean. There is an effect pedal called tremolo, a type of bend called tremolo, and a part that goes on your guitar.
You probably mean what is usually call ed the 'tremolo' floating bridge on a guitar. This is actually a misnomer since tremolo means 'rapid change in tone or volume/amplitude'. What a floating bridge actually does is allows the player to change the pitch of a note or set of notes in much the same way you would with a bend.
Changing pitch rapidly in this manner is actually called vibrato, not tremolo. The tremolo effects pedal actually varies the amplitude so as to give the impression that the note is not decaying as fast. Interestingly enough, there are a number of vintage 'vibrato' amplifiers that actually employ a tremolo device. This is why engineers should ask musicians to name their musical inventions lol. Adding more right?
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If so do this at your own risk, doing this to a floyd rose whammy bar can make it complicated to getting your guitar back in that tuning and string gauge yo u want. With a fender 2 point tremolo I guess the same principal applies though, loosen the screws that if you turn the guitar on its belly the neck going to the left of you (assuming you're right handed) you want to loosen them, hook the new spring into the block and put it onto the claw, than tighten it back up. But with a floyd rose DONT unless you know exactly what you're doing.