I was researching this tremolo system and saw your opinion and was like "ohh well.... Waste of time and money" 😂; Thanks for being honest and seeing the pros of this product! 🙏🇺🇸

Yep, I am thoroughly enjoying the saga of the FRX. 😊 I can understand why moving the bar back and forth would break-in the metal edges that contact on the assembly.

When your first video came out on the FRX I watched some others on KZread. It seems the FRX is a brilliantly engineered system with some flaws in the design. I own many guitars with all types of trems but I never saw own of these in person. I would love to tinker with one but not at this price!

You definitely make me laugh. 😂 looking back is always hindsight.

I have bought FRX chrome in 2017 year and instaled it into Gibson Flying V. It was very expensive for me - bridge system and shipping to Europe from Florida 343,76$. I have the same problem with it as you. FRX doesn`t stay in tune after pulling down, pulling up and relesing the bar. I`ve made some mods with it. I`ve sharpened edges with dremel grinder and put some grease on edges, I`ve repleced sprig and the main screw on a new one. The problem has not gone away. There is still about 1/4 # difference in tune betwen bar down, relese and bar up, relese. Frustraiting.

One thing to watch out for. There is a small metal clip held by a small screw that sits behind the thumbwheel under the bridge. Where the plastic screw goes. That clip can come bent and rubs between the 2 bridge pieces causing the tuning problems. I believe it sits vertically between the 2 bridge pieces. You might be able to straighten it without taking off the bridge. I took mine out and now it stays in tune. I have it installed on a Gibson Flying V. It looks better on a V. You can get lower action using a guitar with a flat surface. I was able to get my action down real low.

More drama in the latest episode of Floyd Follies. Thanks Jake!

Hey man, I've got this floyd and with over a year of fiddling with it i finally got it to return to zero every time. See the pivot posts? The texture is fucking coarse and the knife edge catches on these ridges, thats the root of all evil! I polished them smooth with some 400 grit sand paper and now its returning to perfection every god damn time.

I got one of these last year and stuck it on a gibson sg, and all of the issues you describe applied to me too. Same installation hassles. Same issue with the action-the spring has literally gouged a hole in my flame maple top and the action is still way too high and not well intonated. Same issue with it not returning to 0 on the pull up, basically have to end any movement of the bar on a downpush or im like a semitone higher than i tuned it. Its better than nothing vos honestly i dont want to play without a floating trem but, if i went thru this again i would get something with the normal floyd rose such as the sg diablo or just a different guitar.

I have one on my Studio and one on my Zakk Wylde Epi Les Paul. I keep the spring pretty tight and removed the detent ball. The Studio also has a Dtuna with it, (can dive only). I have ZERO tuning issues and I absolutely love the FRX. They are not cheap... but it's worth it! Palm muting takes some getting used to though. It changes the position of where your hand goes compared to a Tunomatic bridge. Also my action is perfect. The spring is super close to the top of the guitar but it has just enough space to not touch.

The only thing I had to do to a Gibson SG is notch out the bridge pickup ring the width of the saddles once I got it set up. I left off that ball screw at first, got everything parallel to the body, by adjusting spring tension, and later installed it, and now I love it. Mine is metal btw. I hated that string lock at first also, but once I thought about how it is made to fit various model guitars, it really can't be made any different. From the problems you have described about the trem contacting the body, I think it is because the angle of the neck to body is a lil bit different on various guitars. That can only be fixed if you reset the neck, or route out a pocket for contacting trem parts. I love mine, now, but it would be extremely disheartening if it contacted the body to get the right action height.

also, tighten the spring more and it will return to the correct tuning every time. Lastly, there are two different options for the string locks above the nut. There are two different thickness options for different break angles on the head stock. Great review though. ty!

Thank you for your video on the frx. Mine didn't come with a spacer for the string lock. I can probably make one. I was wondering if you know where I can find one? Or should I just file the nut so the strings fit better. It's not level with the nut. As of now I used a slab of leather. Thank you for your help

The singer guitarist for the band INGROWN has an FRX on his walnut gibson sg, and I saw that guy go absolutely crazy with that trem, and he never tuned once. I wonder if the flat sg body is better? It sucks because I really want one of these for my 70s lotus les paul copy, but maybe the washburn one is better?

Ok fair enough. It does add a layer of trem to the LP body, but its still a pita compared to the original floyd lol

Your last video definitely deterred me from buying one I’ll be honest

I like my action low aswell if you don’t mined what is your action at I’m not get it know just won’t to know how hi it makes it

im about to buy a epiphone prophecy extura tiger purple and I'm going to put a Floyd Rose FRX on it to make for one bad ass explorer

Hope youre Video will help me later... I will do it youre way, hope i dont run into the exact same issues...😅

does it go back to 0 with out the plactic part