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The first guitar I bought (and still play) is a Fender Fat Strat, with the Floyd Rose II Tremelo bridge. I wanted to put new strings on about a week later, so I just took them all off at the same time. I guess that’s a no-no, eh? When I tried to put new ones back on, i’d chase myself in circles as each string pulled the trem unit higher and higher from the body of the guitar. Eventually I got so pissed I just loosened my low e string all the way and SNAP goes a few of the strings. So I just took them all off I went on the net for help. Of course it was too late to do it the right way (one at a time, with something holding the unit up to keep the tension from going out). I told somebody about what had happened, and they said that my unit was probably "unbalanced". So now I cannot tune my guitar up to pitch. Only Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, and Eb. And that’s after like an hour of fidling. I can only assume that something is critically wrong. Any advice/suggestions on what I can do? I don’t want to go spend 35 bucks at the shop to have them fix it for me if I don’t have to. Also, I tried tightening the unit through the back panel, but that totally disabled my trem use (ick! I kinda got the guitar because I wanted to use it). Another probably I’m having is getting the action low. It seems pretty damn high, and I wish I could get it lower. If I lower it using the adjustment screws, the back end of the trem sticks up because the front is too low. Even then, it’s not low enough. How can I get better action (lower) without going insane? I’m considering getting this set up and then selling it to upgrade to a different guitar (without trem). Thanks for any help you may have! Shawn
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