Noooooo!!! Broke a string on the strat!

[Crazy_Joe]

Yeah i'm a lazy arse, but i will do it eventually, i wanted to send it to someone because there is a lot of other stuff that needs doing too if you look at my other posts.

[Miracle Man Matt]

fair enough, although if you look around on the internet or even on this months TG mag, its fairly easy to find info on setting up the action and intonation on a Floyd... agreed though, its not my favourite passtime, but its certainly cheaper!!

[Antag]

Joe, I just went back to your thread in the Guitar/Amp forum & checked out the pics (the Scheter right?).  This really ought not to be particulary complicated - your Scheter trem isn't a floyd, & looks much simpler.

Simply get the correct sized allen key, loosen the locking clamp in the nut that's holding the broken string.
Unwind the broken string from the post.
Snip the curly bit off with wirecutters :)
You should be able to push the rest of string through from the top (the pics imply that strngs are bottom loaded on that bridge).

I can't see any sort of clamp that locks the strings at the bridge, so the ball ends should just drop through the holes in the trem cavity cover.

When you pull the broekn string through, take a close look at where it's coming out then you know where to insert the new string... :)

[Jp.]

Forgive my naive-ness here guys.

I have never owned a Floyd style git and I thought I read somewhere that it was a fallacy that you had to cut the ball off of a string?

I have no Idea and it would be interesting to here from floyd owners.

[Miracle Man Matt]

the new Ibanez Floyds like the Edge pro 2 and that don't need the balls cut off, but all the standard copies and originals do need the ball to be cut off.

[Antag]

I have never owned a Floyd style git and I thought I read somewhere that it was a fallacy that you had to cut the ball off of a string?

Well, you could always thread the string the wrong way round so that the ball ends are at the headstock - that way you wouldn't need to snip them off (though it would look untidy IMO)

As MMM states, some Ibanez models don't require the balls to be snipped, IIRC the early Yamaha Pacificas were bottom loaded too.  There was also a superb floyd-style trem from Fernandes in the 80s where the strings were rear loaded (why, oh why did I sell that guitar?!? :()

However, the original Floyd, Schaller Floyd & most derivatives require a plain string end to be inserted into slots where they are clamped in place by an small block pushed by an allen screw.

Joe's Scheter doesn't seem to have a Floyd, but some sort of bottom loaded trem with fine tuners & a locking nut...

[Crazy_Joe]

I got the allen keys and screwdrivers out and had a look at everything, looks pretty easy, i'll get a pack o' strings in the next few days, fitted a new strap holder today, the intonation thing seems fairly easy.

As i said, i can do it, i'm just lazy.

[Miracle Man Matt]

Thats the spirit!!!  well good luck and hope it goes well.