HTS Floating Trem Setup

Visually you can see the Tremelo Unit is sitting low in the body at the back.

Remove the cover plate to the Spring Cavity

Like so

I start the destring process by un hooking one of the springs.

Then I cut and remove the two centre strings

Flip it back over and disconnect another spring.

Cut and remove two more strings.

When cutting the last two strings, be careful as the single remaining spring in the cavity area will want to pull the Trem from its posts.

If the guitar has string lockers, loosen and remove the nuts and plates.

String Lockers are not always found on the Fender Floating Trems.

Remove screw and plate at all 3 locations.

Just using finger pressure I can lift it visually to the right position, the body of the Trem should be parallel to the Guitar body.

Now we unhook the final spring.

Setting a guitar up is a mechanical process and then a symptomatic process, that is, we set the guitar up to a set of mathematical figures, then we tweak or adjust the guitar subjective to how it plays (symptoms) and then tweak to how the player plays, its about finding a nice match for the two.

Floating Tremelos, require a little bit of a different process to the standard setup, so here is a break down of how I do it.

Time to repair approx 1 hrs

Standard Setup Process