Drilling new floyd holes

[Cederick]

I wanna change my OFR to Gotoh Floyd (the OFR is getting bad after only 2 years!!!) and I can get access to a really sturdy drill press.

I have done this a couple of times before, I just put a 10mm drill bit in the OFR stud holes, take it up again, and replace with a 11mm drill bit and then just drill. That has worked fine in my experience, no problems.

But I'm not an expert either... Somebody I talked to the other day says there will be small differences but I just don't see how that's possible? I mean... The body is tightly clamped and the drilling machine is not of toy quality.

So the question is do I REALLY have to plug the hole? I DONT wanna do that and then have to find the center points again... Too much work for my patience :icon_biggrin:

The 11mm drill bit I'm using is similar to this one;

 

[pabloman]

How is the OFR going bad? If it's not related to the stud mounting I would just use the OFR studs and inserts with the Gotoh trem. I have both and I don't believe locking studs are worth the trouble/risk.  ccasion14:

 

[Cederick]

Actually, I still haven't tried to simply switch to brand new springs, that MIGHT be the problem. It would be a much cheaper and easier problem too fix, too.

 

[Cederick]

Hahaha okay I changed the springs to the ones I got with the Gotoh and now the trem works much better, not perfect, but I guess the springs have to wear in like usual.

I had one guitar I installed a Gotoh Floyd on that didn't work properly for like 3 days which made me nuts, but on the 4th day it could hold the tuning for days  :toothy12:

 

[Wolfie351]

I had one guitar I installed a Gotoh Floyd on that didn't work properly for like 3 days which made me nuts, but on the 4th day it could hold the tuning for days  :toothy12:

I had a similar experience with an OFR.  Newly assembled guitar, thing would not stay in tune.  Over the next few days, I tried all the usual tricks with no luck.  It wasn't the strings, I stretched them played them to no end.  Hung the guitar up to worry about it later.  After about a week, took it down to block block the trem to get me by until I had more time and, what do you know, stayed in tune perfectly and no problems since.

 

[Cederick]

I had one guitar I installed a Gotoh Floyd on that didn't work properly for like 3 days which made me nuts, but on the 4th day it could hold the tuning for days  :toothy12:

I had a similar experience with an OFR.  Newly assembled guitar, thing would not stay in tune.  Over the next few days, I tried all the usual tricks with no luck.  It wasn't the strings, I stretched them played them to no end.  Hung the guitar up to worry about it later.  After about a week, took it down to block block the trem to get me by until I had more time and, what do you know, stayed in tune perfectly and no problems since.

Exactly like mine

I can think of two reasons:

1. Neck has to wear in
2. Springs has to wear in

In my case, it was an old Jackson Concept dinky that a friend had has been unstrung for like 5 years, and when I bought it was like $50 I drilled for the Gotoh and yeah, then we have that story about 3 days of constant bad tuning and then it worked like a charm. KILLER guitar too, sounded excellent. Sold it because I prefer slightly thicker necks.