I know there are many places that tell how to do this, but I am still stuck after visiting several sites. I bought a jackson flying v from DeathCS and it was setup for standard d tuning. I want to set it up for standard tuning, so i tuned to standard and adjusting the trem springs in the back. But for some reason, the high-e string always snaps before i can tune it to pitch. It does not happen with any of the other strings, just that one.

Should i take all of the strings off and then restring the entire guitar?? And for standard tuning how should the trem springs be adjusted in the back? Should the screws be tightened or loosened?

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for e standard you would want the strings to be tighter then they would be for D standard. My question is are you starting from 6th and going to 1st or are you going 1st to 6th? I'm saying htis because I would think 6th string down would be stronger. So if you get the tention on the 6th, 5th, etc once you got to the first you might not have as much tention. Is the 1st string ultra hard to bend when you are trying to get it up to E? If it is then you are an octave to high and need to turn it down...Finally where is it breaking? Is it like in the middle...at the end or at the front? If it is the front make sure you have it tight enough in there and for the back ....well i've never seen it snap in the back...but yeah

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its really tight when i try to get it up to e, but I know it isn't an octave up because I tuned it relative to the other strings. hmm. it breaks rights at the end most of the time,

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Heh floyds are a pain..

Usually when I tune my floyd.. I take my string's off , and the bridge will sink down into the little cavity. Strap your strings up , and tighten the screws for the floyd. Then from the low e string ( the thick one ) tune that to E , then do A , D , G , B and lastly e.

Once thats all done , the bridge should rise , and your ready for the long tedius part.
What you want to do then , is tune the low e to E again , the from the e string do the high e string to e ( the thin one ) , then do A and after that B , then lastly D and G string ( mmm g-string ).

Anyway , after a while of fiddling with that , you might notice your bridge is starting rise high ( the back end sticks up alot ) , what I do in this case , is open up the back and tighten the springs ever so slightly , then pick the high e string. If its too sharp , i'll tune the strings down a whole step , and tighten the springs again at the back a bit more. Then tune back up.

Then just repeat the process until the floyd is level with the cavity and the strings are in tune. Dont forget to play the guitar for a bit before locking up the nut , because the tuning will drop down some more.

Just retune it , and after about 30 mins ( how long it takes me ) , it'll be tuned. Just lock the nut at the neck , and your ready to go!




Hope it helped dude.

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you are suppose to bend and stretch out each string until it stays tuned before moving on to the next one. If the strings aren't broken in when you lock em down then the guitar will continue to get out of tune...

anyways JacksonGuitars07 do you have another guitar that you can match the tuning to? Also are you tuning at 440hz and stuff...I'm thinking you are tuning to high...are all your strings tight too? If so that is definitely an octave to high...

For stringing...start from E...stretch it out...bend it do all that good stuff and retune until it stays with lots of bends and shit...then move on to the next string and repeat. Once you are done stringing...retune to be in the right tuning and let the guitar sit for like 30 mintues and come back and make any adjustments to the back of the guitar that is needed. Might need to do that a lot...but the bridge should be parallel to the body.

I'm sure that was a repeat of what kurt:ellis said.

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the trick is to tape up a 9v battery and put it under the bridge and put the strings on, then adjust the springs. u want even tension.

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It sounds to me like the block which holds the string may have a crack in it,or there is an old piece of string in there,causing the string to break there.When you say "snap",it is not breaking in the middle of the string right? Does it break,or just pop out of the saddle? If so you need to inspect the saddle where the string goes in to see if there is the above problem.

This used to happen to me all the time on floyds,where the locking block inside there that hits the string would not sit right due to some dirt or an old broken string in there,and then......POP! The string would keep coming out of there.BTW if you don't use the bar,slip some coins,or objects in the back cavity,behind the trem block,until there is no more space,and untighten the springs so the tremolo hits against the coins/picks,whatever...and tune up.Make sure there is some string tension to hold the stuff behind the block in place.You'll be done tuning within minutes and won't have to set up the damn thing at all.Of course if you like to whammy,nevermind hehe....

Hope that helped,and that I understood the problem here.

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