Thanks for watching and commenting! The answer is maybe? It depends on the hardware of the guitar. I answered a lot of those questions in the video I released after this one "Top Floyd Rose FRX Questions Answered: Take 2" . Ultimately, if you really wanted to install a floyd on your guitar I would guess the FRX would be the easiest. Even if it requires modification and a tech to do it. The design requires a lot less drilling etc to install than a standard floyd rose bridge usually would. If your guitar fits the requirements to properly install an FRX it is very easy to do with almost no alterations at all.

Honestly, it is! There is much less coordination needed beyond getting your finger right at the harmonic node. I'm trying to imagine what you mean by that haha. Like you do an "upstroke" with your fretting hand to make the string vibrate then touch the harmonic?

That's unfortunate! I feel like I was kind of lucky with my entire experience with my FRX. I was able to install it easily and it took almost nothing to set up and intonate it. I don't think I had to do much to get my D-Tuna installed and properly in tune too. What went wrong with yours?

Everything. My neck isn't high enough for my frx, so the frx was slamming into the body of my guitar and I couldn't get the d-tuna in which probably was because I couldn't get the frx on.

Thanks for watching! Yes. It's a brilliant design. It's one of my favorite vibratos out there. Do you have a guitar you were thinking of putting an FRX on?

Thanks! Glad that I was able to give you the detail that you needed!

Thanks! I love that the guitar is getting almost as much attention as the content of the video!

Thanks! I think with the amount of attention that the guitar got I will have to do something. Would you like to see it in more videos or would you like a whole video about that guitar, itself? Thanks for watching!

@@TristanRiversMusic whole video about the guitar! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l53GZ4WPr8qtbsUsi=3XbmHwjxMORF8ghK

Thanks for the comment and adding some more info to Dime's approach to whammy harmonics! I watched a video on the subject not long after I uploaded this video and heard about the wah. I don't know how I never noticed that before! Thanks, I love that Ibanez guitar I used in the video. I do actually have an entire pack of fresh bushings for my Edge bars. I just don't change them enough lol. I find it more convenient to just tighten a floyd's (or Edge Zero's) collar screw. But I noticed that Dimebag even had his bar pretty loose so I guess I just need to practice his way a bit more! Thanks again for watching!

@@TristanRiversMusic haha, fair enough! Personally, it winds me up when the bar does not stay put so I change my bushes whenever it gets loose. One other tip is to use a tiny section of a plastic bag - the ones most strings come in is perfect - as an interim solution. Again, thanks for the video and reply.

No Problem! I'm glad that if you were going to love 3 things and hate 1 that you chose the right combination lol! I promise I will not wear that hat next video haha!

That hat will outlast us all. It's also a safety feature.

@@erikabrown5525 like a cockroach or Keith Richards lol?

That's one heck of a first guitar! Not my first guitar but I did get it in high school and it has been with me ever since. They are fantastic. Was it exactly like mine or did you get one of the other colors?

@@TristanRiversMusic exactly like it it was 3000 in '92. Dad gave it to me really bummed i sold it. He is dead so I regret it a lot.

That is so cool that you got such a guitar from your dad. I would have loved to see one of those brand new like you did in '92. I was lucky enough to get mine in 2001 for $1000 CAD because it was at a time that it was not a cool guitar to have and the electronics weren't original. When I look at how expensive they are these days I am always grateful that I got mine at such a fortunate time. Were you a Reb Beach fan or just liked the guitar itself?

​@@TristanRiversMusic It was the sound I loved as a kid and the design. I used it for 'tallica and megadeth mostly. It had its cons not intonating well. For riffing It was great and soloing. In the end I liked it a lot anyway even though its crazy that for 3 k it could not do open chords like g😂. Ya 10 k now right?? Stupid.

Well, thanks for watching then! What got you to click on the video if you don't like Dimebag? Are there other guitarists that you like that use a similar technique?

What a tool! Who clicks on a video about a guitarist they can't stand just to comment that they can't stand them? Pretty pathetic actually. Let me go watch a Tim Henson video now since I can't stand him so I can be as cool as you buddy. Do you see the ridiculousness of it now? Get a life Pal!! Oh and also, Darrell was one of the greatest humans who walked the earth. I've met and hungout with the Pantera boys many times from 92 to 2001. Best shows I've ever been to were Pantera shows. You're a douche!!! Tristan, you have a new sub. Keep it up brother. You should have a couple hundred thousand subs my dude.

My first guitar

Thanks! It is a guitar from my youth too. Got it in high school. Though, it was a 10 year old guitar by the time it got to me lol. They are fantastic! Thanks for watching!

No problem! Thanks for watching. Hope the video was helpful!

Thanks for watching! I will be making more videos on harmonics over the next while. I'll be sure to do one that demonstrates how to play scales with harmonics. If you haven't already, feel free to subscribe so you'll see when it comes out! Thanks!

Thanks. I plan on it!

Glad to clear up the mystery! Hopefully you can try it out for yourself now! Thank you for watching!

Thanks so much! I appreciate you taking the time to click on the thumbnail when you saw the guitar. It's one of my favorite guitars in my collection! Cheers!

@@TristanRiversMusic cheers!

It's a Reb Beach signature model, Ibanez RBM2NT.

Thanks! as @dabbintiger3919 said, it's an RBM model. I was thinking about making a video about them just for fun (especially if enough people seem interested in the guitar, like yourself). I have this RBM2 as well as an RBM1 and they are great guitars! Fantastic workhorses...if you can find one lol. Surprisingly good for playing in the cover band circuit. Very versatile.

@dabbintiger3919 Nailed it! Thanks for the comment.

I remember when these came out, always wanted one but can never find them.

@@justinrooke5442 they are extremely rare and the ones on reverb go upwards of $10k

Assuming you are referring to a Gibson cover like a Les Paul (the FRX fits many different guitars), it doesn't look like it would. I didn't actually try swapping them as it would have been too much work lol. However, I just held another Les Paul cover over the FRX locking assembly and it looks like it wouldn't cover the holes. If it did, it would only be partial. Thanks for the comment and watching my video!

@@TristanRiversMusic damn, i was hoping it would be more reversible, im considering putting one on my sg but in case i just want to put the stop tail back, it would look as if i never did anything

Hi! I do still have this guitar. Unfortunately for you, I almost never part with any guitars I get. However, I'm always willing to listen to any offer or trade you would have. Just know going in, I love all my guitars and it would take something pretty special for me to part with it lol. Nothing personal. Thanks for checking out my video and commenting!

I had one of these back in the beginning of 2018 and regret selling it, at the time I wasn't familiar enough with 7 strings, then I got an Ibanez RG 7, sold that, and now have a xiphos 7, and am perfectly comfortable, but I miss that guitar as I started my 2nd band with it. Let me think on what I would sell or trade, I have a Kiesel x220 custom but thats an american made custom for an x series haha. @@TristanRiversMusic

Lol So basically the entire video! Glad the thumbnail worked on you haha. Thanks for watching!

I think it really depends on the guitar. To me, Gibson Les Pauls seem to have a decent variance in neck angle from one to the other. That would have an impact on the action I think. The Studio I put the FRX on seemed to work very well. I installed it in no time and had it set up and playing nicely. From what I gather, some people weren't as lucky with their guitar? Mine plays great. I can get close action and enough travel in both directions with the bar to do whatever whammy antics I want. Thanks for watching and for the question.

@@TristanRiversMusicthanks for the info! I’m considering it on my SG.

I'm glad to say, I've never had a serious problem with tuning when using it. How do you have to wiggle it? I know that most floating bridges seem to have a different resting point when you pull up vs push down on the bar. If I pull up, usually I will give the bar a quick nudge down just in case. I have heard of others having a more severe tuning issue with it. Mine never goes out by much and all it takes is a little knock down to put it back. Same with most of my original and licensed floyd rose bridges.

@@TristanRiversMusic with what you described maybe it's normal then. i just dip it down to bring it back in tune. its really annoying so i just have the thub block up. it stays in tune fine its just that one problem. which is a big deal considering its price.

Yes. It is designed to work on a guitar like that. As long as it has a tailpiece and enough room for the bridge to mount, it should be fine. I suppose the one flaw with it mounting to the stop tailpiece rather than the bridge is that a tailpiece doesn't need to be measured in the exact place like a bridge. There is always a potential issue with intonating the bridge on some guitars if the tailpiece is in a bad place. But that Harley Benton looks like it should work just fine with an FRX.

Hi, sorry I couldn't get to your question sooner. Unfortunately, the vast majority of RGs wouldn't be able to use the FRX bridge without serious modification. I know that lots of RGs have fixed bridges, however, they are string through body and don't have a stop tailpiece (like a Les Paul or some other Gibson style guitar). The bridge mounts to the posts of the tailpiece. IF you absolutely were going to put a Floyd Rose style bridge on an RG, the FRX would take less modification than a traditional one and I would consider it. But if you were thinking of putting it on what I think is that RG652AHMFX in the video you posted, I would say don't do it. Those are beautiful guitars and it is always good to have a nice fixed bridge guitar too. If you can, get another guitar that already has a floating bridge. What's great about Ibanez these days is they make many of their guitars in both fixed and floating bridge versions. Hope that helps!

Thanks for checking it out Leslie!