The following information is the definitive guide on Floyd Rose tremolos (and variants) with a special (but not exclusive) emphasis on left-handed guitars: genuine, licensed, and proprietary - past and present. Nowhere else on the internet will you find all this information in one place. This article is in five parts: Part 1: Original and Genuine Floyd Rose   (Floyd Rose, Fernandes, Schaller, Sung il, Ping Well) Part 2: OEM Producers   (Schaller, Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi, Ping

The following information is the definitive guide on Floyd Rose tremolos (and variants) with a special (but not exclusive) emphasis on left-handed guitars - past and present. Nowhere else on the internet will you find all this information in one place. This article is in five parts: Part 1: Original and Genuine Floyd Rose   (Floyd Rose, Fernandes, Schaller, Sung-il, Ping Well) Part 2: OEM Producers   (Schaller, Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi, Ping Well, Jin Ah) Part 3: Proprietary V

NOTE: The following information is the definitive guide on Floyd Rose tremolos (and variants) with a special (but not exclusive) emphasis on left-handed guitars: genuine, licensed, and proprietary - past and present. Nowhere else on the internet will you find all this information in one place. This article is in five parts: Part 1: Original and Genuine Floyd Rose   (Floyd Rose, Fernandes, Schaller, Sung-il, Ping Well) Part 2: OEM Producers   (Schaller, Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi

In October 2025 I got in touch with Kahler in the United States after having read their announcements about the new 2700 Fulcrum series being relaunched. I bought a left-handed Kahler Steeler Traditional after watching this YouTube video: I do not have a guitar to hand to install it into as the block is wider than a Floyd Rose cavity and it will not go straight in to anything routed for a Floyd Rose. But at this stage, I will not be installing it. Here is my review (updated

The Floyd Rose II was a genuine Floyd Rose tremolo made for Floyd Rose by Schaller in the late 1980s as a cheaper alternative to an Original Floyd Rose. It was used on Kramer guitars and was also supplied as an OEM product to many other guitar brands with import lines throughout the 1980s and 1990s, such as Jackson, Charvel, Carvin, B.C. Rich, etc. The Floyd Rose II has exactly the same dimensions as the Original Floyd Rose but is made of cast iron. It was made in Germany, as

The Takeuchi TRS-101 has been out of production for over 15 years. The original TRS-101 was used by many guitar brands during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, such as Jackson, Charvel, B.C. Rich, Washburn, Ibanez, ESP, Kramer, Yamaha, Aria Pro II, and others. The TRS-101 was always and continues to be the most copied Floyd Rose style tremolo of all time. It's as legendary as the originals. If you have a guitar that is more than just a beater to you and you need to replace the tre

In the very beginning, Fernandes Electric Sound Research Group Co. Ltd. of Japan  (not Schaller) was the first company to mass-produce the Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo. 1981 - 1983 Genuine Floyd Rose Production June 1981: Floyd Rose meets Fernandes representatives at the 1981 NAMM show. A contract is signed almost immediately for Fernandes to mass produce Floyd Rose's hand-made double locking guitar vibrato system. Fernandes (a Japanese marketing/distribution company) ou