leadfingers
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Post by leadfingers on Oct 16, 2013 15:30:02 GMT -5
A friend gave me an older, slightly abused Aria Pro II SL series with whammy bar (minus the actual bar). It has a few things wrong, (volume pot and tone pot noisy, last person that had it put on the High E string but didn't put it through the solid bar, just up through the bridge, one raised fret that is causing some issues on the high E string at the 9th fret)
Anyhow, not having seen this particular model before, I was looking it over and the knobs that appear to be for fine tuning don't seem to do anything. Or, perhaps a part is missing, making them non-functional. They are only attached to the main block. And there is a lot of empty space in the routed out area in the back.
Also, when I try to tune it pitch (A=440) the bridge is pulled WAY up from the body. It only has 2 springs on it but still, in the past, there has been some mechanism that allows for setting the floating bridge to a point and tune it to E. Can't do it with this one.
Anyone have any info, instructions, pics that can assist with this.
I will try to add pics later if that helps.
Thanks!
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Post by newey on Oct 16, 2013 18:37:23 GMT -5
lf- Welcome back! It's been a while . . . I'm not familiar with this guitar, so no answer from me. Is this a Floyd clone, an actual Floyd, or something else? Pics would definitely help. Greekdude has an Aria Strat clone, I don't know if that's the same as yours or if it's the same trem unit, but he may have some insight into this.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 2:09:19 GMT -5
A friend gave me an older, slightly abused Aria Pro II SL series with whammy bar (minus the actual bar). It has a few things wrong, (volume pot and tone pot noisy, last person that had it put on the High E string but didn't put it through the solid bar, just up through the bridge, one raised fret that is causing some issues on the high E string at the 9th fret) Anyhow, not having seen this particular model before, I was looking it over and the knobs that appear to be for fine tuning don't seem to do anything. Or, perhaps a part is missing, making them non-functional. They are only attached to the main block. And there is a lot of empty space in the routed out area in the back. Also, when I try to tune it pitch (A=440) the bridge is pulled WAY up from the body. It only has 2 springs on it but still, in the past, there has been some mechanism that allows for setting the floating bridge to a point and tune it to E. Can't do it with this one. Anyone have any info, instructions, pics that can assist with this. I will try to add pics later if that helps. Thanks! as with any floating tremolo bridge, either you add springs or tighten the existing springs claw, or you use lower gauge strings. I doubt this particular model comes with any sort of stabilizer, so you have to try the conventional methods.
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Post by leadfingers on Feb 17, 2014 13:31:58 GMT -5
greekdude,
Sorry it took so long. But thanks for the feedback. Yeh, I added another spring and it pulled it down where it should be. Still have no idea what the screws were for. It was a clone of some sort. Not a Floyd, that's for sure. But again, thanks for the feedback.
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