Floyd Rose vs. Schaller in Recessed Tremelo Cavity

[Rocky Knight]

I purchased some Floyd Rose Tremelos to go in some of my guitars...However, I noticed that for any of my guitars with the recessed tremolo cavity, it is an issue to try and upgrade from a previous Schaller Tremelo to the Floyd Rose, due to the longer string lock screws on the Floyd...

I was wondering if anyone else had run into this issue and located shorter string lock screws for the Floyd so that they can use the Floyd in the recessed tremolo cavity and have it free-floating and recessed....

Of course, I can use the Floyds on some of my non-recessed guitars, but thought I would see if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[cardinal]

You can find shorter OFR string lock screws on eBay from some dude in Poland or something. I have some and they are nice, but in some cases too short.

 

[Rocky Knight]

You can find shorter OFR string lock screws on eBay from some dude in Poland or something. I have some and they are nice, but in some cases too short.

Thanks for your reply, Cardinal...I thought there might be shorter string lock screws available...I have not checked with any of the parts companies (Stew-Mac, Allparts) as of yet...I thought I would start asking here...

Was your situation similar to mine, in that you needed them shorter to fit in the recessed area of a guitar body routed for a Schaller design tremolo?

 

[cardinal]

No, I was fitting a OFR7 into an recessed Edge Pro 7 route. The shorter screws worked perfectly, but I could only use two of them (otherwise, they were too short to use on the top 5 strings).