What you are talking about is a reccessed body route for the floyd rose. This wont stop string breakage at all. It will allow for higher raised pitches then a non reccessed floyd routing but again , it wont aleviate problems with string breakage. The best bet is to use quality strings , pay more , get better .. and maybe try a heavier string gauge.
Strings are gunna break anyways , especially under heavy stress from dive bombs and "reverse" bombs where pitches are raised! As I said , more expensive strings , heavier string gauge will help you a little but the strings are gunna keep breaking after awhile. Also , where are your strings snapping? At the nut or back at the bridge? You should check for scuffs and burrs and rough spots both at the bridge and the nut and if theres any spots there have them worked on by a tech.
One more thing , I've done a quick search and most results I get for your style show that the floyd routing is allready reccesed for "pulling back" on the bar to raise the pitch. So just try some of my suggesstions and see how it goes.
Rock On!!
I wasnt saying what I said as a way to evitate stop the string braking or snaping, I was just saying because what he does fucks up the guitar!
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Ok cool. but I'm still losing you here. How does this fuck up his guitar? I have an epiphone explorer with a floyd that isnt recessed and I set it up so I could pull back on it and it hasnt/wont fuck up my guitar.
Do you mean fuck up the floyd or the paint and finish of his guitar?
"He strings don't break, they snap out of the bridge. I want to know the highest pitch I can reach before the strings snap out."
Ummmm .. that is NOT supposes to happen. LOL! Never should they "snap" out .. they should break before "snapping" out of the bridge. Your bridge is a double locking system and those strings should stay put on your guitar until they either break or you decide to change them .. no matter how much whammy abuse you put them through. Are you locking them in place tightly at the bridge. It sounds to me that you maybe arent.
I'm gunna guess that whats happening is this , you cut the ball ends off your strings , which is the correct thing to do .. then load them in the bridge and tighten them but not tight enough. Cause once a string is installed correctly on that double locking system it should never ever "snap" out of place unless it (the bridge locking system) isnt tight enough or your bridge itself is faulty in some way.
I hope you get it figured out .. keep us updated.
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