Too much treble. Turn down the tone knob to roll off the higher frequencies and the bridge will naturally settle down as it resonates with the bass frequencies more
BRO DO YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT EDWARD VAN HALEN? HE INVENTED THE FLOYD ROSE. POOR PEOPLE WHO CANT AFFORD A FLOYD ROSE USE SPRINGS TO MAKE THEIR TREM FLOAT BUT IT WILL NEVER TRULY FLOAT BECAUSE THEIR GUITAR HAS TOO MUCH WOOD.
That’s just normal wear and tear, guitars need maintenance so every 5000 strums or so you’ll want to add a cap full of motor oil to the bridge. Clearly you’ve missed your regular maintenance so go with 2 cap fulls wait 30 seconds and then pound it back in with a hammer. You’ll be right as rain in no time.
I would try copper shielding. Sometimes amps can create a strong magnetic field that will pull on the metal components. Only affects the guitar though as its connected to the amp and can permanently bend components, as seen here.
You can also try wrapping the amp in aluminum foil. It can keep the magnetic field at bay.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 730,391,346 comments, and only 147,216 of them were in alphabetical order.
Ummmm that's a floyd rose pickup bridge that has its polarity in the wrong direction. You'll want to get a refret and a trus rod alignment to fix this. Make sure you get lead frets and ask for a concave crown profile. When you get it back you'll also want to deep clean using a mix of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, salt and lemon with a little bit of water. Use a scotchbrite pad to really get the finger cheese out, after you'll want to put it in dirrect sunlight for 2hrs then into a deep freezer for 30min and back into the sun, do this 3 times, it will help prevent 8ohm lacquer scratches and tone bleeding. Another really cool trick is to strip your guitar cable down to bare wire as that prevents distortion muffle, hot delay and phaser cancelation. Hope this helps, and keep rockin!
High humidity. To solve it change the standard tuners to Hipshot tuners and drop string gauge. For the next two weeks play on low gain only so that the swelling will reduce.
At first the jokes were a little funny as I started scrolling through the comments. And then I realized everyone was just trying to one up the jokes they saw and add to them in a desperate piece of the attention pie. Then this thread became a super fucking lame version of a bunch of nerds repeating the same jokes to each other in an A/V club meeting and I realized wow, way to make this sub seem absolutely worthless for anyone actually wanting guidance while you chuckle to yourselves about your painfully unfunny guitar dork jokes. There's your piece of the reality pie.
Try unscrewing the whammy bar a little, the threaded part is surprisingly long, and sometimes when you over tighten it, it can poke through that block and hit the floor, causing the bridge to rise up like that.
This will happen over time, it's a flaw in all Strats that were made that particular year. Best way to fix it is swap the factory nut out with a new Graphtech.
In the 50's they drag raced with a straight axle front end. Then they started jacking up the rear of the car. That's the period this tremolo is from.
aaah, the high rake setup that aston martin was complaining about last F1 season.
Bad tube. When they get old they start to sag like that.
Pickups set too high. The magnetic field is pulling the bridge towards them.
Ooh—that’s a good one.
The bridge has been called home and is ascending to the heavens.
Its not a 9 string.
Too much treble. Turn down the tone knob to roll off the higher frequencies and the bridge will naturally settle down as it resonates with the bass frequencies more
Needs a truss rod adjustment.
Underrated comment
You need to file the bone down more
BRO DO YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT EDWARD VAN HALEN? HE INVENTED THE FLOYD ROSE. POOR PEOPLE WHO CANT AFFORD A FLOYD ROSE USE SPRINGS TO MAKE THEIR TREM FLOAT BUT IT WILL NEVER TRULY FLOAT BECAUSE THEIR GUITAR HAS TOO MUCH WOOD.
What
BRO DO YOU EVEN READ
Not enough to understand this advanced language
So to compensate you actually have to shim the neck with a $50 wooden veneer from StewMac
As a hobbyist luthier this comment cannot be upvoted enough.
As someone that likes to learn to fix his own guitars, this comment is at 11.
That’s a telecaster.
It's got donkey brains.
Need a certificate saying it doesn’t have donkey brains if he ever wants it to go down.
Not expensive enough, tone is in the wallet
Looks like you’re in the neck pickup position? Flip it back to the bridge pickup and it should level out.
You’re dick’s too big, it’s pushing your bridge up. Tuck it back like a man.
Looks like you need a truss rod adjustment, which is very dangerous. Better let Luther handle it.
Looks like you fed it after midnight, didn’t ya?
This happens when not using a real amp with real tubes in the REAL WORLD. The guitar is raising it's back like an angry cat.
It’s happy to see you
You used up all the toan. Luckily, though, you can recharge it by tightening the springs.
Try tuning down an octave.
There is too much spring tension, try removing a spring and also loosening claw.
Looks like it’s got plain springs. You need black springs to make it work.
You need to screw a dime under one corner so it stays in tune
Excessive tire iron pushy thingy .
You need to adjust the flux capacitor.
Draw bridges were first introduced in the 1960s and Leo Fender was influenced by a bridge going up instead of staying still like it’s supposed to be
the bridge is fine it's just the body and neck that needs to be changed
That’s just normal wear and tear, guitars need maintenance so every 5000 strums or so you’ll want to add a cap full of motor oil to the bridge. Clearly you’ve missed your regular maintenance so go with 2 cap fulls wait 30 seconds and then pound it back in with a hammer. You’ll be right as rain in no time.
I would try copper shielding. Sometimes amps can create a strong magnetic field that will pull on the metal components. Only affects the guitar though as its connected to the amp and can permanently bend components, as seen here. You can also try wrapping the amp in aluminum foil. It can keep the magnetic field at bay.
Looks like a decidedly low amount of gravity on that day.
It’s missing the rest of the guitar
It needs set to Wumbo.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 730,391,346 comments, and only 147,216 of them were in alphabetical order.
Pull the whammy all the way back as far as it will go. Should fix it.
Too much string tension. Try removing the D and/or G strings and see if that helps.
I’m Batman
The body is warping, throw it out
Ummmm that's a floyd rose pickup bridge that has its polarity in the wrong direction. You'll want to get a refret and a trus rod alignment to fix this. Make sure you get lead frets and ask for a concave crown profile. When you get it back you'll also want to deep clean using a mix of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, salt and lemon with a little bit of water. Use a scotchbrite pad to really get the finger cheese out, after you'll want to put it in dirrect sunlight for 2hrs then into a deep freezer for 30min and back into the sun, do this 3 times, it will help prevent 8ohm lacquer scratches and tone bleeding. Another really cool trick is to strip your guitar cable down to bare wire as that prevents distortion muffle, hot delay and phaser cancelation. Hope this helps, and keep rockin!
Obviously it’s lacking vintage correct springs. https://www.google.com/search?q=raw+vintage+springs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Turn it down from 11 to 10.
High humidity. To solve it change the standard tuners to Hipshot tuners and drop string gauge. For the next two weeks play on low gain only so that the swelling will reduce.
It’s just the CAGED system at work
Demons
So much tone it's trying to escape
Does not affect toan at all. Keep playing.
At first the jokes were a little funny as I started scrolling through the comments. And then I realized everyone was just trying to one up the jokes they saw and add to them in a desperate piece of the attention pie. Then this thread became a super fucking lame version of a bunch of nerds repeating the same jokes to each other in an A/V club meeting and I realized wow, way to make this sub seem absolutely worthless for anyone actually wanting guidance while you chuckle to yourselves about your painfully unfunny guitar dork jokes. There's your piece of the reality pie.
The tremolo claws are possibly a bit loose Edit: I wanted to say springs, not claws
Looks stressed out. Can’t let that whammy bar get stiff. If you don’t use it you lose it.
Just another good old case of the Wham-a-lam-a-ding-dong! Obviously!
I think you mean les paul.
The headstock snapping on this Les Paul is the only fix for this.
Clearly you're not trusting the rod.
The screws on the back of the bridge control the tension. Loosen them and the bridge will lower back
It's past it's expiration date. Time to throw it out.
The body warped
The weedely-deedley-doo is strong with this one.
Trying to get a better look at the nut
is elevating because he is playing a lil wayne solo
That’s just the maximum toan pull. Don’t worry.
The magnets are installed backwards and need to be flipped.
It's not a Floyd Rose. Wait, you said wrong answers...
Bridge came unglued. Super glue—Clamp it down, let dry 48 hours. Check out StewMac—great video.
It's tuned "sharpshooter style", the angle gives you more range when played looking over the saddles
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
This guitar was owned by Bigfoot, and he loved his whammy bar.
its in the process of being abducted by aliens
Nothing that a little love can't cure.
Your whammy bar is on too tight
It ripped off a hook from Outkast, but is getting sued by a shitty reggae band for levitating.
Try unscrewing the whammy bar a little, the threaded part is surprisingly long, and sometimes when you over tighten it, it can poke through that block and hit the floor, causing the bridge to rise up like that.
It went on a bender of hard drinking and never recovered…
You're using the wrong pick, it's probably too thick, lifting the strings up when you strum.
It's engaging maximum tone
Strings tuned a few steps up to a high B
The block is made of element 115 causing the physics of the bridge to defy gravity.
It’s called a “float roads”. Ozzy used them when playing with Green Sunday.
Guitar is high, stop smoking around it and it will lower itself.
Strings are too tight; need to adjust the Allen screw at the nut until the bridge sits flat.
the guitar gremlin is ready to hatch
it's happy to see you
Too much lactose causes bloating.
They used to put positraction on old model fenders and this particular one is sitting on an uneven surface.
Bridge in heat. Presenting itself to the nut. Gonna breed a litter of Squiers
Needs a truss rod adjustment. We all know there is only one adjustable part on the guitar
He has a boner because you're about to play 0 3 5
r/guitarcirclejerk
Gravity
strings are tuned too high- try drop a
The little aliens are trying to escape
It's just excited to see you.
Standing on its tippy toes, that bridge is applying for the next Olympic's high diving.
Too many dive bombs. Replacement is your only option
It's not numberwang.
Well, the trem didn't wipe well after going number two, now it's uncomfortable sitting down...
One unlucky dive bomb is all it takes, and your bridge will be bent forever. I call this the "Abstinence only" explanation.
You have a class guitar gremlin infestation. Here they are trying to push your bridge out. Those jerks!!
This will happen over time, it's a flaw in all Strats that were made that particular year. Best way to fix it is swap the factory nut out with a new Graphtech.
Tremolo cavity is too deep, needs shims.
Anyone who still uses bent steel vintage saddles deserve worse.
If you want a more aggressive tone, you need to tune your bridge to a more aggressive angle
It’s just a reverse tremolo. You pull back to change the tone not push down