Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a machinist that plays guitar and is familiar with "floating" Tremolo Systems such as the "Floyd Rose", i.e., a tremolo system that can both lower and raise the pitch of a guitars strings.
I have designed and patented a new tremolo system for electric guitars and I have just about finished the AutoCAD drawings for the final prototypes. I need someone to make the prototypes for me. I have had some problems with the reliability of a machinist I had previously been working with, and I need to find someone else to do the final prototypes. I'm trying to find someone who is really interested in this type thing & who is reliable & honest. I would also like to find someone who is reasonably proficient with CAD, i.e., someone who can at least "view" 3D CAD files, use the hide, shade, & render commands, look at 3D files from different viewpoints, etc..
The tremolo system is as stable for tuning as a fixed bridge, i.e., tuning one string does not effect the tuning of the other strings, bending a string does not effect the pitch of the un-bent strings, breaking a string does not effect the pitch of the remaining un-broken strings, resting your hand on the bridge for palm muting effects does not upset the tuning of the strings. At the neutral position, the tremolo bridge acts just like a fixed bridge, but you use it just like a standard tremolo system & the tremolo arm has a smooth balanced feel at the neutral position. You can both lower and raise string pitch from the neutral position. The design basically just adds a cam and cam-follower to a stock pivotal tremolo system.
If you are interested in making the prototypes please contact me at the email listed in this newsgroup (Johnjmechanical @ yahoo.com) "delete the space before and after the @ sign". Please provide your name, address, contact info, and a little background information. I will then contact you direct via my regular email and I can send the DWG files for quotation after I get them done. I think I can get things wrapped up in about a week or so, so it may be a little while before you hear from me . I'm looking to move ahead as fast as possible because of lost time due to the unreliability of my former machinist. Even if some time passes between the time of this post and the time you see it, please email me if you are interested.
Thank you. John