Schaller, Gotoh, Ping. Those are 3 of the makes that I would look at.

 

Gotoh all the way.

 

Gotoh or OFR hands down.

 

you must know first that ANY other trems except the Edge-Pro and Edge-Pro II will require routing works on the cavity to accomodate.

 

gotoh will fit the edge 3 rout. its affordable compared to the rest of the brands.

 

gotoh will fit the edge 3 rout.

you tried it? i did, and it didn't fit.

 

If it doesn't fit I'm sure there's just a little bit of sanding (or dremmel to speed up the process if you have one) around the cavity to fix it.

 

I've done an OFR replacement to a 350EX that was a direct drop in. Same thing with an LTD M-400, but that's a different story all together.

 

I've done an OFR replacement to a 350EX that was a direct drop in.

what year? i.e. what trem there was in?

 

PING

Hands down, the best OFR copy out there. In fact, it's the only LFR to bear the Floyd Rose logo on it's baseplate.

I can attest to it's durability, I own one.

 

isn't the edge 3 rout the same as the edge pro 11? because your earlier post said the edge pro 2 and edge pro doesnt need routing work to retrofit an edge 3 rout. so im assuming the edge pro 2 and edge 3 sizes are the same. and my gotoh i used retrofitted mi edge pro 11 rout easily. so it should go in unless the edge 3 rout is smaller.

 

yep, but somehow you can't do vice versa. unluckily i forgot to take pics when i tried to fit a Gotoh in an Edge-III rout but i took one with a Schaller Floyd, which is exactly the same shape and dimensions of the Original Floyd and the Gotoh as well. it would fit dimensions-wise, but the post holes are moved too backward for the Gotoh knives to fit in. take a look...

Edge-Pro into an Edge-III rout: it fits.

Schaller (Gotoh) Floyd into an Edge-III rout: it doesn't fit.

 

ar i see thanks for the insight nuno. interesting and edge pro can fit and edge 3 rout. by the way nuno is an edge able to fit a edge pro rout? just curious to know.

 

by the way nuno is an edge able to fit a edge pro rout?

unluckily no. the back side of the "wings" would rock against the cavity, and the string lock screws as well. take a look...

Edge into Edge-Pro cavity (JS1200CA): no fit

same thing with the Lo-Pro:

Lo-Pro into Edge-Pro cavity (JEM7VSBL): no fit

 

ar i see. thanks

 

Looking at both of those Nuno, there's not a great deal of work still to fit any of those trems. Nothing a dremmel couldn't take care of in a short amount of time.

 

SO THE EDGE PRO IT'S A DIRECT DROP IN IN THE EDGE III CAVITY!!!!?????

 

Thanks Nuno, thats pretty cut and dry. This thread should be stickied.

 

i've got a question...

if the edge and lopro are too big to fit in the edge pro cavity... shouldn't the edge pro fit easily in the (larger) edge/lopro cavity??

do the posts not line up or something?

 

shouldn't the edge pro fit easily in the (larger) edge/lopro cavity??

i think yes, but i'm not positive on that. if i remember correctly, the trem would touch just a bit right beneath the wings, where they attach to the "tail". check the pics:

Edge-Pro into Edge cavity (RG565): may fit.

and the knives/posts would match. but i'm not pretty sure, i can't remember exactly now, sorry.

 

i recall someone saying that the schaller fr was a direct drop for the edge 3, i was gonna go with that if my edge 3 ever poops out, but not anymore

 

it's actually the a direct swap for the edge pro 2. i did this in an earlier rgt42. the narrow barrel screws makes the longer floyd original impossible without routing.

rich

 

Anyone got pictures of an OFR or Edge Pro in a Edge III route?

 

you're in luck! i came across the very pics you are looking for!!
here's where you can find them..

go to the first page of this thread,
go down a bit.
:wink:

 

if u want good lisc trem for a swap with an edge pro 2, you can go get a gotoh. the gotoh i got fit right into mi jem555 routing.

 

could you plz post a pic of it?

 

For an RG350MDX, what would be a straight swap?

A Floyd Rose Pro will drop right in.

 

again...

*USELESS TOPIC WITHOUT PICS!*

 

I hope Chef21 doesn't mind me posting his pic here, but that guitar on the right is his RG350 that originally came with an Edge III. He directly replaced it with an OFR, there's a thread around here some where about it, and I'm pretty sure it was a direct fit for him.

 

Yeah that thread is here:
http://www.jemsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41770

And it's a licensed floyd all the way. Looks like a decent fit though

 

there are signs telling me that Chef21's is a pre-03 RG, i.e. Lo-TRS, not Edge-III. in fact, the "new" trem he put in the Lo-TRS place is one of those licenseds with wide wings, not a Floyd-direct licensed (narrow wings) like the Schaller or the Gotoh. i tried to put a Schaller in an Edge-III cavity and it did barely fit in width. now, a wide-winged licensed wouldn't. check this pic:

now look at these pics, it's an Edge-III cavity, and look how narrower in comparison with Lo-TRS's, keep the pickups width or pickups' screws as a reference:

and look at the back of the cavity, they look different in the spring block's area:

(see slanted walls and routing on the bass strings side)

(see square walls, and no routing on the bass strings side)

also, see how the tail's cavity is shorter than the baseplate cavity on the Edge-III:

in comparison with Lo-TRS's which has a tail cavity the same lenght of the baseplate cavity:

i may be wrong, but those cavities are different, and i can assure you that a wide-winged licensed WON'T fit the Edge-III cavity (unless you set it so high it stucks out of the cavity...). :

 

looking this pic better, it seems like the trem's sitting above the guitar's top level, not inside the cavity (also check the high action, by consequence):