The ESP Guitar Company

might need more springs but it's more likely that the knife edges are worn...

Most LFR's tend to wear out after a few years of heavy abuse, and the m-207 is from 02-03 right...

Take the trem out and check the knife edges, if ther are any cracks on the semi circle's or any wear of any sort that would likely cause the bridge to not quite return to zero, how many springs are you using?

well Ist standard for me to check that and last string change i checked. What seems to be a plaguing issue for me with LTD guitars is that the bridging mounts are always crooked. I don't know if it is from soft wood or some idiot in the factory not drilling the holes straight down, but on both my F-50 and M-207 (keep in mind one is a TOM and the other a floyd) the mounting stud are crooked. The F-50 looks like it was drilled in wrong because it leans over in a direction away from string pull, but the m-207 leans in the direction opposite of the knife, as in the tension of the bridge has warped the wood inside.

I can;t tell though because as soon as I remove the metal piece and stick a cylindrical object the same size of the hole it comes out perfectly up, with the metal piece in (where the stud drill into) everything, including pencils, come out crooked.

still the knife sits in the pocket on the stud, but since te stud is crooked I don't know how that effects its return.

I am using 3 springs, the tension is balanced and since its a 7 string with that much tension it is almost impossible to use the whammy since the tension from both sides is pretty strong. I do notice that when i use 9's they return closer to zero where as the 10's I have on it now will be usually over a half step off. When you play its constantly going sharp and flat.

and it was built in the first quarter of 1999 I believe, I bought it used back in 2004 and even then the studs weren't aligned correctly. maybe that why the guy wanted to get rid of it on ebay for only $200, the same price I payed for my F-50 brand new 2 years later.

well i think the holes in in correctly, I would have to buy this new metal piece that sits inside the holes. I have no clue where to get a hold of them or what they are called, and i have not seen them on any other Floyd but mine. When you take it out and look at it, it is crooked and bent up, and I have tried bending it back but its too thick.

I really don't want to go out and buy a new floyd since just about any floyd would cost me more than i paid for the guitar, i think it might actually be easier to pull out that metal piece and get real sink that the stud fits into and put that directly into the wood.

any place i could get individual parts for a floyd? most places that i have found the only way to get the small parts is to buy a whole new set and i don;t have the money to do that, nor would i want to put that much money on a guitar that isn't worth it especially when it can be an cheap fix.

that is what i was talking about, the bar that the studs fit into is crooked and i want to get just the individual piece that sinks down into the wood for the stud to sit inside.