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

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Trichilia is a Mahogany family genus with 70 species, four of which are native to Africa and the remainder native to West Indies and ranges from Mexico through Central America to Brazil and Bolivia in South America. There are 43 species alone in Brazil. Two of the four African species have timber uses and one species of the American species is recognized for its timber uses. 

Turraeanthus africanus is a single Mahogany family genus/species native to Africa. It is most known as AVIDORE but also goes by the English names AFRICAN WHITE MAHOGANY and rarely as AFRICAN SATINWOOD. It is the lightest-coloured Mahogany family timber being a cream or pale yellow and can have figure.

Carapa is a Mahogany family genus with two species native to Central and South America and one species native to Africa. Timber from this species is otherwise sold as "Crabwood", "Andiroba", "Demerara mahogany", or "Bastard mahogany."

Melia is a Mahogany family tree with three species, one of which yields high-quality timber but has no commercial or export interest. This species yields timber that is reddish-brown with a straight but coarse grain. ​

Chukrasia tabularis, is a single genus/species in the Mahogany family found in Southern China, and throughout South East Asia and India. It is most commonly traded as EAST INDIAN MAHOGANY, INDIA MAHOGANY, or INDIAN REDWOOD. Other trade names include BURMESE ALMONWOOD, CHICKRASSY, CHITTAGONG WOOD, BASTARD CEDAR, and WHITE CEDAR. Botanically it is very close to Cedrela and Toona. Small exports of veneer originate from Myanmar and India.

Guarea is a Mahogany family genus with 71 species native to Africa and Central and Latin America. Two species in Africa have timber uses and two species in Latin America have timber uses.

Cedrela is a Mahogany family genus with 13 accepted species native to the Carribbean and the Americas. Botanically Cedrela is the equivalent of Australasian Toona except that it is native to the neo-tropics. Collectively it is usually traded as "Cedro" or "Spanish Cedar." There are four main commercial species.