Floyd Rose FRX Tremolo System - Black

I fitted this to an epiphone prophecy extura, was not sure if it would even work not being a gibson or a les paul style. Wasn't really sure how it worked as there's not a lot of info on them. This will fit on ANY guitar with a stop tail piece. Only the rear stop tail posts are what the bridge mounts to. They supply both metric and standard posts. The front posts get removed completely and left empty. The front rests directly on the guitar body and has adjustable posts to level the bridge and set the action. Small sticker pads are supplied for the posts to rest on to avoid contact with the hardware and body. Setting the action low was not an issue on mine since it's flat and not a carved top like a les paul. I still have 3/8" of room under the bridge with relatively low action. With a carved top the bar connected to the spring is the lowest part of the bridge and might contact the body with low action. The rear mounting holes are slotted to slide the bridge forward and backwards during set up to dial in the intonation perfectly. Set up was easy but took about and hour or so. The instructions were a little vague but gives you enough to understand the concept. If you've ever set up a regular floyd rose it's very similar but a lot simpler to dial in. The spring tension to balance the bridge is just 1 screw at the rear. There's a thumb screw that acts as a block to make it a dive only and to make string chances a breeze. There's a round head plastic screw that rides along the side of the bridge while operating the trem that engages into a notch so the bridge kinda locks in at zero to help with tuning stability. There's a small "click" when it disengages and engages as you use the trem. You can remove it and have a true full floating bridge. The tremolo bar swivel tension is set like the new style floyd rose with a plastic bushing and a set screw. I set up the bridge first and made sure everything worked how I wanted and was sure I liked how it felt and played before mounting the nut. It was surprisingly pretty solid tuning stability without the locking nut as I was reluctant to put small screw holes into the head stock. How it feels to play, it does feel like it moves your picking hand a little farther forward than the original tune o magic bridge. There's not sharp edges everything is rounded nicely. Dives just as far as a regular floyd, it does have a smaller range when pulling back. The bar feels great, feels like a regular floyd rose maybe a little lighter to push and pull. I would imagine tuning and string gauge would have an impact on how tight the bar feels as the spring tension would be increased with thicker strings or standard vs dropped tunings. Pro: Turn ANY tune o matic/ stop tail bridge into a full floating bridge. easier to adjust, easier string changes, easier tuning changes, Everything is accessible from the top of the guitar. Trem blocker for dive only, Return to zero screw option, Looks absolutely insane Cons: Looks absolutely insane Weight (if that matters to you) Have to drill small holes in the head stock if you want double locking. Cant pull back as far as a regular floyd rose. Price.( for the price you could probably buy a decent used guitar with a floyd rose)

I installed the Floyd Rose FRX tremolo unit on my black Gibson Les Paul Studio. It looks awesome (see pics). The unit is fairly easy to install if you read through the instructions and also watch Floyd Rose's installation video online. I had no problem after watching the video installation. Just remember to remove the centering screw (round head) if you don't think you'll use it. I saw no need for it and I thought it created a light clicking sound on the video. Some folks like a centering device on a Floyd Rose - I don't. This FRX has a great travel range (if not the full total range of a standard Floyd Rose, but close). It has plenty of spring tension for sensitivity to light taps on the bar. However, the unit's travel is easier than a standard Floyd. He says this is by design, as some have complained about how tight his standard Floyds are. I like the lighter spring tension. Easier to whammy on, but same effect and feel as a Original Floyd Rose (of which I own several). I am totally pleased with the unit and the packaging - full retail packaging with all required parts, hardware, allen wrenches and a full set of instructions. Fit and finish is excellent. I didn't even have to adjust the innotation! Better padding in the box than in the Original Floyd Rose packaging (no padding there). I am installing a black tusq nut from GraphTech to go with my locking tuners. I will not be installing the upper locking nut that is provided. My locking tuners and a slick nut will do just fine and still allow me to use the main tuners anytime. This thing is a winner. I have wanted a Floyd on my Les Paul for years. Now I have it quick easy and fully functional - no down side!

Seems like another great product form Floyd Rose. A bit expensive for a tremolo system and the work needed to set it up but is a great alternative to routing your ax out and potentially causing unwanted damage. All I have to say is do not trust the guitar manufacturer to have located the tail pins precisely where you need them. I was lucky and got mine pretty close. If I were to install this FRX on a cheaper guitar then I would definitely need to fill the old pin holes and drill new ones to keep the scale correct and be able to intonate the instrument. This design was obviously blueprinted around a higher quality Gibson Les Paul or SG. Overall I love it and love the looks of it.

PLEASE DONT BUY THIS, i cannot understand why this thing gets such good reviews, I dont know if I revived a faulty unit but this thing is absolute garbage. From day one it would not stay in tune whatsoever, after literally 20 mins of play time the Floyd knives were chipped and had a big chunks missing out of them, some notes were as much as a full step flat or sharp after a dive, and while trying to adjust the spring tension the baseplate literally snapped in half, this thing is a $300 lump of Chinese pot metal, please don’t waste your money, if you want a Floyd rose just bite the bullet and route out a cavity for a real tremolo system, this is an overpriced cheaply made gimmick

Initially I thought this would not fit on my Gibson BFG. I was wrong. You only need to use the studs for your stop piece, the FRX does not need the studs from the bridge. Looks good, installs easy. Will update review when I've completed installation, taken more pics and had an opportunity to use it extensively. So I've been able to spend some time with this and here is what I learned. It does feel like an OFR in dive mode. You can adjust to float. Benchmark for me when floating is the original Ibanez Edge tremolo. The FRX does not feel anything like the Edge when it is floating and does not have the range or stability that the Edge does. Watch the YouTube video that Official Floyd Rose uploaded. Watch the whole thing because there are some neat things the FRX can do. For example using the main compression string to tune the entire bridge.

J’ai acheté ce tremolo pour ma SG. J’y ai ajouter un Seymour Duncan P90 en micro manche… waouuhhh. Quel pied ! Je n’arrive plus à m’en passer. Aussi bien pour jouer du bon rock type Guns N’ Roses qu’Iron Maiden que pour jouer des morceaux plus subtil comme du Pink Floyd.

this is a great wanna have for your ''guitar Dive bombing trickery'' , easy mounting , ... !! :-p

Added a Floyd Rose FRX surface-mount double-locking tremolo to my Epiphone Les Paul Ultra III. Took slightly more than the 30 minutes professed by some of the pro YouTubers out there, definitely had to fiddle with the studs to get it sitting right. I think it’s because my LP has an arched top. Also had a bit of an issue with the locking nut assembly (my issue, not Floyd’s). Setup otherwise was brilliantly easy, intonation took about ten minutes. Can’t quite get the action where I had it but I think that’s just a function of the shape of the bridge. All told got it installed, set up and intonated in a couple hours.

Floyd rose is a genius! The FRX arrived really fast, three days. It went on my Epiphone SG without much difficulty. All the parts were there, and the finish was beautiful. It took a few days of fiddling to get it set up, but now it works well. It transformed my favourite guitar to the ultimate guitar. The only complaint would be the price, but since it is fairly new on the market, I think it was worth it. The FRX has made me look at Gibson style guitars differently now, and I can see me converting more in the future.