Is it 6-point? 2-point? No, it's a 0-point trem ...

[Logrinn]

So I visited a music store today and saw this second hand Brian May guitar.

I naturally had to try it since 24" scale guitars are exactly what I like. And a 24" scale guitar with 24 frets no less. That isn't very common.
Long story short - it felt and played great. I really liked the tremolo on it. It's not a Floyd type of trem but rather has a more subtle type of action. I used it pretty much, both lowering and raising the pitch without any problems. The guitar never went out of tune! Very cool.
So I had a closer look at the bridge and noticed that it didn't have the normal 6- or 2-point suspension as most trems have. In fact, at first I could see any point at all!

Here it is in it's resting, normal floating position:

And here it's depressed pretty low:

So where are the screws for it? Is it hanging in midair?

Turns out that there's some block(?) under(?) the pickups that connects to it. I'm guessing it has an axle or something connecting the two parts.
It's hard to see, but at the bottom in this image you can barely make out that part protruding from under(?) the pickup that connects to the "forward" block of the bridge.

Oh, and it had 5 springs at the back and it was still floating, not hitting the body. All this with pretty normal strings - I'm guessing 010's.

I wouldn't mind this bridge at all on my next build. It felt really, really cool.

 

[Cagey]

I float bridges with 5 springs and 9s all the time. Having the full complement of springs seems to make the thing behave more consistently, which is important to me. Makes a bit harder to dive it to where the strings are hanging off the neck like over-cooked spaghetti, but you could count on one hand how often I do that over the course of a year, and 3 of those 4 or 5 times it's just to demonstrate that I don't need no stinkin' Floyd to stay in tune  :laughing7: