User manual CARVIN ORIGINAL-FLOYD-ROSE

[. . . ] · If you want your arm to stay up then tighten the cap nut fairly tight. If you want your arm to swing freely then back off slightly on the cap nut. · Remove arm when transporting or storing guitar in its case. [. . . ] · Slide string through the small hole in the string post. Take up all the slack then tighten the thumb screw on the back. Cut off the excess string and then tune your guitar. · Tune up from low E (6th) string to high E (1st) string, 6 or 7 times in order to stretch the tremolo springs. · Stretch your strings using the tremolo arm. · When strings hold their pitch relative to each other, then tuning is complete. · Fine tune using the fine tuners. If the arm socket becomes loose, tighten with a 3mm allen wrench. Spring Tension Adjustment: Your Carvin guitar comes set up with a set of high quality 942 strings. If you continue to use the same brand and gage of strings, spring tension adjustment is normally not necessary. However, if you switch brands or gages you may need to readjust spring tension. Follow the steps below. Overall String Height Adjustment: · Turn string height studs C. W. · Turn string height studs C. C. W. If tremolo rear end is to high in the air follow steps #4, 5, 6 & 11. Tighten the two screws on the rear of the guitar that hold the spring claw, 1/2 turn each with a phillips #2 driver. Re-tune guitar and see if tremolo is parallel with guitar body. [. . . ] the lock block, rounding of allen sockets, and, or cause rapid string breakage. · When stringing up the Sperzel tuners do not Tips: wrap multiple string wraps around the post. · When turning the two claw screws, have your Eliminate as many wraps as possible to keep guitar face down on a padded table. [. . . ]