A Floyd Rose on a Les Paul, you say??
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Not me!
Some famous Canadian guy named Alex someone uses one.
He was in that band with the two other Canadian guys.
They played bass and drums, and the bass guy sang real high.
You know, those guys.
The drummer wrote the words.
Good, popular band.
Some famous Canadian guy named Alex someone uses one.
He was in that band with the two other Canadian guys.
They played bass and drums, and the bass guy sang real high.
You know, those guys.
The drummer wrote the words.
Good, popular band.
Yeah, that guy!
Beat me to it…Not me!
Some famous Canadian guy named Alex someone uses one.
He was in that band with the two other Canadian guys.
They played bass and drums, and the bass guy sang real high.
You know, those guys.
The drummer wrote the words.
Good, popular band.
arlum
Friend of Leo's
It's been done quite a few times by many players. You see them from time to time. I can't imagine myself buying or playing a Les Paul with a vibrato, (with the possible exception of a Bigsby). At least the Bigsby keeps the vintage design theme going. I had a Bigsby on an SG. I never really used it but didn't mind it being there. A Floyd? Shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder.
MilwMark
Doctor of Teleocity
Lots of folks. It’s been around for a long time.
AAT65
Doctor of Teleocity
Can’t speak for the others there but neither Hackett nor Fripp has a “real” (Gibson or Epiphone) Les Paul with a Floyd Rose — I believe they both use Fernandes Burny models. Hackett has said basically he wouldn’t dream of vandalising his old Les Paul like that.
I agree, but I think that the extra "hardware" is so that it can be mounted to the existing bridge/tailpiece mounts and removed without damage. There do seem to be a few new holes drilled in the headstock for the locker, though. I might be wrong on all of this.
All guitars are legit, but if I really wanted a Floyd, I'd probably get an Ibanez or something like that.
Well, that looks fairly innocuous, compared to the clank around the Les Paul bridge.
True. Thanks. I was referring to shape,carved top, etc. The guitars are lp's except in name only.Can’t speak for the others there but neither Hackett nor Fripp has a “real” (Gibson or Epiphone) Les Paul with a Floyd Rose — I believe they both use Fernandes Burny models. Hackett has said basically he wouldn’t dream of vandalising his old Les Paul like that.
Dickey's and Neal's are true Gibson Les Paul guitars. No cheap knock offs for them.ha!
Dickey Betts' LP had a Washburn Wonderbar on it - their claim to fame was that the bottom was flat so you didn't have to rout the top of the guitar to install it; just those pesky mounting screws.
Schon's first LP with a Floyd was one of the those late 70s/early 80s Les Paul Pro Deluxes - came with 2 P90s and had an ebony fingerboard. So when he had it routed for a bridge humbucker and the original pre-fine-tuners Floyd in 1979 or 1980 it wasn't like he was messing with a vintage guitar, just something a couple of years old. That one, now referred to as the "Don't Stop Believin'" guitar was up for sale a few years ago - by that point it had the neck P90 removed and had a Fernandez Sustainer installed (the Sustainer and a single-coil sized rail pickup in a humbucker ring) and it had an OFR with fine tuners on it.
And back to the original post - that removable/surface-mount version of the Floyd hardware certainly does look odd - both the bridge and the string lock.
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bender66
Poster Extraordinaire
I always thought Johnny Hickman had a Floyd but upon closer look I was wrong.
Donny Osmond fan
Tele-Afflicted
Gibson has made some. Swatt Tooth has some single cuts with them. Others have as well.
P-Nutz
Friend of Leo's
A luthier? The seller?
LOVE Johnny Hickman.
Not the same, but I use these ...
Cosmic Cowboy
Tele-Afflicted
Played with a guy who had a Alex Lifeson LP. He sounded good.
Wheelhouse
Tele-Holic
A floyd on a Les Paul is no big deal, as demonstrated above. The real question about the original post is, what is all that other stuff around the bridge?
