Restringing a Floyd Rose Tremolo Guitar

Video Transcript

"Restringing a Floyd Rose or floating or locking tremolo is a little more complicated. A Floyd Rose or floating tremolo, Floyd Rose made these popular, allows you to depress the tremolo bar to not only slacken the strings and make the tone go down, but raise the tremolo bar to make the tension increase and therefore raise the note because there's nothing down here to keep the tremolo from going into the guitar. Whereas a Stratocaster, for example, the bridge is bolted on and can only flex up and down this way because there's no hole underneath it. Now here's how you would restring this type of guitar. You could cut the ball off on one end, and insert it here, and then wrap it around the top, which is what we'll do here. So you just want to chop off the bottom of it there. So now you have essentially, like a nylon string. No ball on either end. You're going to need an Allen wrench here to loosen this little area in here to give you enough room to fit that string in there. You're going to stick it in the back, and you're going to release that so you can fit the string right down into this pocket here. Tighten it back up."