Floyd Rose Spring Dampening Issue

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It's been a long time since I tried doing a full floating FR. All of the Floyd guitars I have had in recent years got a term stopper for dive only and I put plastic tubing in the springs to dampen the noise.

Got a new axe I want to float but with an ESP Arming Adjuster for added stability. I won't get that until next week so in the meantime I put the tubing in the springs. Killed the noise but now they seem to be sticking a bit causing it to not return to zero. It wasn't doing that before the tubing was added.

Anyone else experience that and what did you do?
 
peckhart":29b8knja said:
It's been a long time since I tried doing a full floating FR. All of the Floyd guitars I have had in recent years got a term stopper for dive only and I put plastic tubing in the springs to dampen the noise.

Got a new axe I want to float but with an ESP Arming Adjuster for added stability. I won't get that until next week so in the meantime I put the tubing in the springs. Killed the noise but now they seem to be sticking a bit causing it to not return to zero. It wasn't doing that before the tubing was added.

Anyone else experience that and what did you do?
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Just cut a 1/4" think piece of foam and lay it on the springs between it and the back cover. I also put a hair band behind the nut, kills the annoying noise even more.

I do this to all my guitars and they are dead quiet and return to perfect pitch every time.

Thanks Dimebag, got this trick from him back in the day in guitar for the practicing musician.

Chris
 
I always rolled squares of toilet paper and stuck them in the springs. :D
 
Better to buy some silent springs. I find stuffing stuff into the springs causes tuning problems.
 
FU Tone Noiseless springs will solve that pretty quickly I have them in all my Floyd equipped guitars.
 
I just put a Qtip down each spring and haven't had any issues.

The Arming Adjuster is a great piece.
 
I've used the foam that comes inside pickup boxes, stuffing inside the springs with q-tips/guaze/cloth, trem-setters, pipe cleaner sticks looped thru the springs, electrical tape loosely looped around the springs...they all seemed to work pretty good.
 
I cut a thick rubber band, fold it in half and slide it in the spring. I've been doing this for 20+ years with no issue.
 
I bought some hair ties to use as string dampers for tapping but they were too small. But when sort of weaved in the springs it works well (i.e. it wraps around the outer springs and then weaves through the others).
 
BackCrack":3q8j03sz said:
I've used the foam that comes inside pickup boxes, stuffing inside the springs with q-tips/guaze/cloth, trem-setters, pipe cleaner sticks looped thru the springs, electrical tape loosely looped around the springs...they all seemed to work pretty good.
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+1 on the foam stuffed inside the springs.

I get a length of foam and I used to thread the strip through the length of the spring but I've found that just jamming it into the middle of the spring in a tight ball works just as well and is lots faster to do.
 
Just add a piece of heat shrink tubing over each spring. Very slightly heat it, you only want it just touching the spring, not tight on there. Works like a charm!
 
I used to do the rubber tubing too. An idea just popped into my head to dip them in plasti dip
 
Yep. I just jam the trem cavity full of cotton balls. Seems to work.
 
I put shrink wrap over guitars springs and heat it up to conform to the spring(s)..sounds ridiculous but works perfectly,no problems ever.fixes both the problems,the noise and not returning.
 
PBGas":37anmn8a said:
Just add a piece of heat shrink tubing over each spring. Very slightly heat it, you only want it just touching the spring, not tight on there. Works like a charm!
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I didn't think anybody else has done that,I have been doing it for 10+ years,works great.
 
Thanks for all the ideas.
I ended up putting a Gotoh GE1996t bridge on it and used those springs and went from 2 to 3. I cut the pieces of tubebsmaller so they go in easy anjust lay in there instead of being crammed in. No noise and tuning stability is really good now. I also took that pickup box foam idea and used a slice of it to put under the strings right behind the nut. Works like a charm and it's dead nutz quite now when I stop. I never realized how much noise came off the strings behind the nut like that.
 
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