Don't fight it... relax and give in... Metal Guitars with a new twist are coming back into style... yes... I used the word STYLE... that may bring up images of White Lion and Poison...but.... they ARE coming back... and so are FLOYD ROSE bridges... they made more sense than those older bridges anyway. The new Charvel (Fender owned and with Fender headstock) San Dimas guitars come with what the original ones didn't have... Nitro Relic finishes. This is sort of a hybrid... for my mind.. the best of Fender meets the best of Metal Guitars (these guitars, as EVH will attest, as basically metal tools.. no nonsense.. they stay in tune, you can bang on them all day... heck.. you can even bolt some giant eye-hooks into them as strap hangers). So on that note... let's all change a string on a Floyd Rose....(get the easy answer HERE...)...FIRST... reset the applicable fine-tuning screw to a middle position (Screw 'A') 2..) Loosen screw 'B' a few turns counter-clockwise, until the desired string pops out of the bridge hole it is in (see the 'X'...which marks the spot). 3.) Loosen the nut clamping block (where you see 3 clamps with allen screws, at the top of the neck) that applies to the string you are working on. 4.) Remove the OLD string. 5.) Clip the ball off the NEW string. 6.) Put the freshly cut end into the hole where the old string came out of, on the bridge (see 'X'). 7.) Push it in as far as you can, and then retighten screw 'B'... DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN! (Do not allow string to pop out again while you are doing this... ). 8.) Feed other end of the string under the nut clamp, and then apply to the tuning peg (as you usually would on any guitar). 9.) Tune the string, and then tighten the nut clamp again. MAIN RULE.. DON'T OVERTIGHTEN ANYTHING.
