The following is the ultimate guide on left handed Floyd Rose ® tremolos: 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   (Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi, Ping Well, Jin Ah) Part 3: Proprietary Versions   ( Schaller, Kahler, Fernandes, Ibanez, St. Lo

The following is the ultimate guide on left handed Floyd Rose tremolos: 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   (Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi, Ping Well, Jin Ah) Part 3: Proprietary Versions   ( Schaller, Kahler, Fernandes, Ibanez, St. Louis

The following is the ultimate guide on left handed Floyd Rose tremolos: 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   (Kahler, Gotoh, Takeuchi, Ping Well) Part 3: Proprietary Versions   ( Schaller, Kahler, Fernandes, Ibanez, St. Louis Music,

I just found out that Floyd Rose will now be making all his tremolos in the United States. This is after 40 years of exclusive production by Schaller in Germany. I am happy about that for a few reasons. I am a not a fan of Schaller because of a personal "bad customer experience" with Lars Br ü nning a couple of years ago that put me offside. Since then, I have pretty much refused to use or recommend Schaller products. I took their locking tuners and tremolos off my website. T

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 Late 1981: Floyd Rose meets Fernandes representatives at the 1981 NAMM show. A contract is signed almost immediately. Fernandes (a Japanese marketing/distribution company) outsources the actual metalwork – almost certainly to Gotoh, though this has never been offi

It's taken me 18 months to put this together, but I have finally written the absolute definitive guide on left handed Floyd Rose tremolos. I spent thousands of hours putting this together. I have drawn from personal experience and research. This is everything you would ever need to know (if you were interested) in Floyd Rose and other types of OEM and proprietary locking tremolo systems. I am still making tweaks, as I learn more. It's a complicated subject. This guide will ed