Fender Stratocaster Floyd Rose!The Fender Stratocaster Floyd Rose HSS is a popular choice with many guitarists. In fact, the Floyd Rose tremolo has been popular on just about every guitar model to which it has been applied since it was developed. 
When you hear Floyd Rose, you may think of a bridge, not a person, but the name applied to a man before it applied to some metal pieces. The man developed the locking tremolo arm in 1977 and soon started making them by hand. Among his early clients were big-name musicians like Eddie Van Halen and Brad Gillis. Steve Vai and Neal Schon also added the piece to their guitars. From 1992 to 2003, Fender made the Floyd Rose Classic Stratocaster. It offered a Floyd Rose original bridge and came in HSS and HH configurations. The HSS had either a Fender DH-1 humbacker or -- prior to 1998 -- a DiMarzio humbacker -- and two DeltaTone single coil pickups. While the interest in Stratocasters with built-in Floyd Rose locking tremolo bars waned and production was stopped, recent years have brought renewed interest. The Fender Standard Stratocaster RSS with Floyd Rose is in production now and available for less than a thousand dollars This time, it comes with a Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo instead of an original manufactured by Floyd Rose. The new model features Standard single-coil Strat pickups on the neck & middle and a Standard humbucking pickup at the bridge. Floyd Rose -- the man -- was a jeweler at the time he made his first prototype bridge. When he noticed that strings float free on standard bridges, he thought they would stay in tune easier and function better if they were held in place. After designing his first one in brass, he switched to hardened steel for durability. By 1979, he had patented the idea. The impact of the Floyd Rose tremolo on sound is debated. Some players find that since the piece changes the way strings move, strings offer a thinner sound than with a standard bridge setup. Others install larger blocks to compensate for these changes. One thing is certain: The Floyd Rose locking tremolo was popular enough that Fender brought it back on a new model after discontinuing the classic one. The Fender Stratocaster Floyd Rose in either its classic or modern incarnation offers players yet another option to change the sound and characteristics of the Strat, one of the world’s favorite guitars. Tell us what you know about this guitar
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