Anypne using an EVH D-Tuna?

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Anyone have any luck with one of these? I was thinking about getting one but doest it really work the way they say it does? And how about on a recessed floyd? Any help?
 
I cant work with a floating floyd...it's just not possible. Block your floyd and they work excellent once calibrated correctly :thumbsup:
 
I think a few folks have them. sah5150 comes to mind. I've been meaning to try one, but I haven't gotten around to it...
They don't work on Recessed Floyds unless you lock the bridge in down-only mode. Basically, the D-Tuna slacks the low e-string to 1 step lower. I would assume that if you put it on a recessed floyd that's floating, it would screw up the counter-balance tension and make guitar out of tune.
 
With a Floyd blocked you could break a string and the rest of the strings would stay in tune...break a string on a floating trem and it's all out of whack. That's why the Floyd needs to be blocked, as the Low E string is slacked to D it does lose tension making all the other strings go out of tune

The calibrating is just a fine allen screw that is like a fine tuner...once it's in tune to D you push the D-tuna in and fine tune the allen screw to E. After that you're good to go :rock:

pretty simple stuff ;)
 
A d-tuna will will work if the floyd is NOT recessed ...It will work on a recessed floyd if the area is routed where the d tuna peg lies off of the trem . The d tuna wont fit on the recessed trem because the tremolo is "recessed" below the face of the guitars body like on an Ibanez ... If the Floyds screws for the string clamps are above the face of the body it works fine if the screws are bleow you would need additional routing to fit the d tuna ... They work great I had one on my axis !!!!

Z
 
Absolutely a gotta have for me.
When I switched from JEM's to Wolfgangs over 10 years ago, it was a little bit troubling getting used to it, but now I'd never go back. Tuning stability in changing environments on the road, drop D instantaneously, (in the middle of a song), and vastly improved tone. You give up flutter effects and the small pull up range.
You can do it on a recessed if there is enough room behind the bridge. Peavey USA Standard Wolfgangs are recessed.
Block the bridge at the trem block with a glued in, good fitting hard wood block.
Pretty easy mod.
 
I have one on my 5150 replica and I love it. I have the Floyd blocked though.
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There's been problems with them recently. Either a bad run of them, or because the company has moved production overseas. I bought one recently, and even after doing all of the supposed fixes, it still only tunes from E to D#. I've since been on the hunt for a cheap Peavey Special just so I can steal one of the older good D-Tuna's from it.

Not having a D-Tuna hasn't been a problem though, as my new Gotoh Floyd has enough fine tuner adjustment to easily go from E to D, and still have fine tuning ability on either one.
 
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