The great Floyd Rose Big-Block Shootout.

[jhale667]

New stuff!

Bumping this due to the fact there's a new FU block type available - Copper - and having tried it for another FU site review (clips coming in a couple o' weeks), I honestly think I may like it better than Brass! It's not much more expensive than Brass, but to me it sounds...bigger. It's also a little warmer, so there's IMO a chance it may not work in a dark-sounding guitar (unlike the other 2, which sound great in anything I've slapped them in). I will say it has the best acoustic tone of the 3 materials, but obviously that's not the biggest deal for an electric guitar....(lol). It probably bumps up the mids more than Brass or Ti, and gives as much if not more added "oomph" and sustain than Brass. I tried it in the Koa Warmoth that's been the test bed for the other block reviews, and while I still think Titanium rules overall, Copper is a nice alternative. If I had to rank them I'd IMHO say Brass=Good, Copper=Better, and Ti=Best. YMMV.

[ELVIS]

What one is the brightest ??

[jhale667]

What one is the brightest ??

Overall I'd say Titanium, but the highs aren't shrill at all...still very pleasing to the ear IMO. I wondered if it would be overkill in the Bomber Charvel since it's got a Northern Ash body and a Maple neck, but it's not.

[Jagermeister]

Overall I'd say Titanium, but the highs aren't shrill at all...still very pleasing to the ear IMO. I wondered if it would be overkill in the Bomber Charvel since it's got a Northern Ash body and a Maple neck, but it's not.

Have you been temporarily barred form being blue or do you just feel white today like the rest of us?

[jhale667]

Have you been temporarily barred form being blue or do you just feel white today like the rest of us?

Glitch, I'm told...

[jhale667]

Over the weekend as part of the Lang amp demo I got to A/B my FU Ti Big-Block-equipped Charvel mutt with a dude's 5150 Kramer replica (very cool and faithful reproduction, btw) that had a Performance Brass Big Block in it...similar in tone to the FU Brass, but overall the Ti KILLED IT, even the guitar's owner and the manufacturer of the amp we were testing agreed...harmonics are seemingly effortless at higher voulumes, they just jump out of the guitar. Also helped that the amp as well as the pickup was translating it well, but the Charvel outshined a room full of guitars including Fenders and Gibsons tone-wise...I was stoked!

Mike, the guy with the Kramer (and a very solid, versatile player!) was very impressed with the fact that the FU blocks require little to no modification to the trem cavity, complained the Performance mod was a PITA. Think I brought another player over to the dark side...lol

[Nitro Express]

I got the new uranium block and it's hot!

[jhale667]

From Uranus, no doubt?

[Seshmeister]

Looking into this again.

It's occurred to me that do you not lose a bit of journey on your whammy bar if the block is much bigger?

Surely you can't really pull up as it will hit the wall of the cavity?

It's not something I do very often but something to consider...

[Hardrock69]

Careful Sesh...that thinking stuff will get you in to trouble....

[ELVIS]

Nothing a router can't fix...

[Coyote]

It's over a year since I got my latest build done (the one with the Ti block)... No complaints yet on the overall tone.

[jhale667]

Easy fix, minimal (additional) wood lost...

Looking into this again.

It's occurred to me that do you not lose a bit of journey on your whammy bar if the block is much bigger?

Surely you can't really pull up as it will hit the wall of the cavity?

It's not something I do very often but something to consider...

Yeah, on certain bodies you may need to modify the cavity a bit if you want to pull up more than say, 2 steps. The block fit in my Warmoth body with no issues, but I DID have to work with the guy at KnE to make sure their future routs accomodate 'em. I basically copied the difference in the Warmoth cavity on the KnE with a pencil and sent it back to him, he worked out a new CNC rout that fits them with no issues.

I have Ti blocks in 2 guitars and Brass in 2...one of which may get swapped for one of the Copper ones I got from Adam at NAMM last year...

[Hardrock69]

Heh....went back to the beginning...2 years ago when the gay buddies Garfail And ButtFag were still around. Made for some hilarious entertainment!

[Hardrock69]

Couple of interesting comments from daze of yore:

One question. Have you ever seen Billy Gibbons use a trem bar?

WWBGD.

Quick and easy answer is on the song "Cheap Sunglasses"....the intro to the middle-eight/guitar solo....there is a clean chimey guitar playing chords.....then there is a rhythm-pickup guitar with whammy dive bombs on a medium note (not too low or high) with some echoes on it.

Just reading the above asinine comment, that part of that song appeared in my head.....

Then, who can ever forget this classic bit of stoop-idity:

Let me fill you in on something non-Floyd here since you insist the derailment to continue:

Magnets regardless of metallurgical content, must be magnetized before they are "magnetic."

Wow. Hims was smart!

Imapus Sylicker did a masterful job in bitch-slapping the little fools around, too!

Another highlight:

Why no solid lead blocks, then..