What Happened to Floyd?

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I think the useful Floyd patents expired?

Things just come in cycles. Floyd got a bad rep from the hair metal days, and it hasn’t really recovered. Doesn’t help that EVH went around saying they sounded bad.

Plenty of people still use them, but it’s more utilitarian: a tool used because it’s whats needed, not what’s wanted. Even Petrucci released a sig recently with a Floyd. They just work best of any tremolo IMHO, and it’s not even close.
 
The 80's are over and the guys that loved that music to death are getting arthritis.
Solos are dead and nobody really uses fully floating terms anymore.
'Core musi, multi-scale and 12-string guitars killed the need for it.
Tone snobs want that routing wood back.
I'm glad, maybe it'll be cheaper to replace my floyds if they break now!
 
Just ordered 2 more Hot Rod Pros.... Floyd is alive and well in my house :)
 
I have 9 guitars at the moment. Only two are without a Floyd.
Floyd guitars are the best!
 
I found Floyds to be a nuisance that I never used. that said, if I was going to have a tremolo at all, it would be a Floyd- they do hold tune very well once you get them set up.
 
John4021":2132fgzx said:
Did he sell the Barbershop?
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It still rules for me. I prefer the older German made units. They started making them in Korea and they were cheaper metals and it suffered but looks almost identical to the older OFR's.

I personally don't see a that much of an advantage with the Gotoh units that seem to be in favor over ORF but all it takes is John Suhr to say its better (probably because he gets better cost per unit in volume with Gotoh than Floyd) and it takes off in the niche market. It (Gotoh) really is a good unit but its NOT night and day better than current OFR's. YMMV
 
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