Guitar Set-Up Question

[chickenstrip]

Bought the Strat with 9s, switched to 10s. But these seem to have put a lot more tension on the bridge, so it's lifting at the back, and the tuning is unstable; especially a problem when swapping between different tunings, it all takes forever and then quickly goes out of tune (knew there was a reason I preferred non-trem ). So, I have the option of a free set-up at PMTs, but wondered if it was easy enough, something I could learn to sort for myself first? Any ideas/tips/how-to?

I seem to remember sorting this on a previous guitar simply by adding 2 extra springs on the trem, but perhaps not the ideal solution (worked though)?
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[Suntan Sid]

Take the cover off the hole, on the back of the body, and tighten the two screws that hold the spring mechanism to the body of the guitar.
That's worked for me in the past.
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[P.]

Loosen the strings a bit, drop it a step and a half. Remove the cover if its got no holes already, as Suntan Sid says, screw them in. If there is no room to screw them in I used to just add a few small washers between the plate and the screw head.

You think that trem is hassle, try a floating one.

Alternatively, you could chop a block of wood and put between the trem and body, again under that access panel. No matter what you do then, it can't pull forwards.

[oldpink]

you may need to give the truss rod a tweak as well as you have changed the tension on the neck
maybe better to take the free setup unless your comfortable adjusting the truss
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[chickenstrip]

[oldpink]

[chickenstrip]

New strings and given a hammering. No buzzes, all sweet

Cheers again.
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[P.]

I used to have to adjust the truss rod on mine every few weeks... then I got multiple guitars. Going from B standard and 13 gauge to Eb on 10s was effort

Glad it's better chickenstrip

[chickenstrip]

[oldpink]

latest addition to the collection my son bought Schecter 8 which he plays in all sorts of drop tuning
I can't play his 7 string never mind this beast
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[chickenstrip]

[P.]

I've mainly use LTD, ESP, Ibanez and Schecter. The latter are superb, for the money you really can't beat it. Many many models, many many gigs... many dodgy nights.

[chickenstrip]

[P.]

My 3 schecter guitars were between 700 and 1200. Nothing crazy when idiots spend over 2k on wood.

Nothing has really impressed me as much as my C7 hellraiser.

[oldpink]

don't think he paid that much for it (about £400) pretty much what I paid for his Schecter 7

chickenstrip 12 strings are great to play ( I have 5) and a really good way to harden up your fingers and improve fingering as you need to be more precise in placement
when I go back to a 6 string it feels very soft,

I picked up two of the sweetest 12 string EKO guitars from the late 60's
for under £150 each much more playable and better sounding that current fender type £150 offerings
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Block off the trem.
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[someotherguy]

Real men use 11s.

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Using one of these.
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[P.]

[someotherguy]

[P.]

All bout the .88mm and 58-13's

I had a 7 string... it was superb, but you know... sometimes it was likely playing a plank, wider than my knob

[oldpink]

I can happily swap from a 6 to a 12 string and vise versa but I can't figure out a 7 string
esp as my son normally has his tuned to C or some other weird tuning
he uses heavy gauge strings to allow the drops
he even has my Godin on 13's but in Dd tune (no idea why)
but means I can't tune to E as it pulls the neck way off and makes it feel like a slide guitar

my personal string choice is Elixier 10 - 46 esp on the 12's but bloody expensive
esp when you have 3 main 12's to do at any one time
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[Fladdem]

I bought a used Squire Jagmaster recently, what a guitar, it came with 9's, I stuck 11's on it, after snapping the 9's within two weeks, when tuning it, it pulled the tremolo bar thing up, so I just stole two more springs from the back of the china-strat I was using to thrash around on, that seemed to sort it, it wasn't until afterwards, I noticed the screwed going into the body and realised that I probably could have just tightened them down more to adjust spring tension.

Never mind, china-strat sounds funny with only one spring in it and Jagmaster sounds as evil as ever, s'all good.

EDIT: Just read some of this and have no idea what half of thread is saying. It's dawned on me just how little I actually know about guitars, I can't read music, I don't know any keys or scales, don't know what anything is called on a guitar, but I can make feedback happen and smash out palm-muted 5th's like there's no tomorrow.
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[unitynotsocri...]

Id advise most guitarists to stay away from tremeloes and dodgey bridges . i had a yamaha with springs in the back , after pi***ing around with it for a few months I added a few extra screws to fix the bridge ,took of the trem arm and sold , not mentioning the tremelo .
Thesedays when tremeloing I just pretend im trying to snap the guitar by pulling backward on the neck
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