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Marshall Law

Marshall Law

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I have a Charvel I just bought recently and was checking the intonation and that's when I noticed this, please watch the short video (I hate typing) and give me your thoughts. thanks.
PS free floating Floyd.
[Edit] I just noticed if I turn the guitar face down the strobe goes flat face up goes sharp. I don't know'

 
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How high is the humbucker to the strings?
I've tried this before and it would seem normal to me, especially with a floating bridge.
I think it is simply gravity.
 
Yeah, it's gravity. Gravity sucks.

I watched the installation video that Floyd Rose made for the FRX tremolo and he mentioned that the tremolo will go out of tune if you turn the guitar sideways. So, yeah, gravity is the problem in this circumstance.

Good luck with that gravity shit, it's a motherfucker.
 
hold it upside down the same way and see if it goes flat. Methinks it is gravity also...
 
I have had a couple guitars that have done the same thing, and it is more noticeable if it has a big block. Gravity.
 
I haven't had a free floating floyd in 20 years. the 2 other floyd guitars I have are both blocked. the gravity of the block did not occur to me thank you everyone.
 
Gravity, yeah, but more-specifically, it's the neck bending because of it, changing the string tension. For this reason I always tune and intonate with the strings in line with gravity - no bending forward or back in a chair to reach something or whatever.

Will happen with every geetar except a neck-through-body with an unbendable neck like graphite or metal.

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Gravity will move a trem too of course...
 
That whole bridge only contacts those two knife edges and the whole thing cantilevers from those points. Even the weight of the springs in the back are pulling downward when the guitar is on it's back.
 
ML,
Do the exact same movement with your left hand on the very tip of the headstock, now it’ll now go slightly flat…
It’s just science.
 
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