RiffRaff

Just to update... I received the above-mentioned trem arm yesterday and it fit perfectly! Thanks to RTH for turning me on to the site! I now have a complete and beautiful S-800! Oh... and my friend picked up a 2007 LP Junior in classic sunburst for $45 the other day... gotta love craigslist!

Best way I've found is to restring with the backplate off. That way you know the string balls are properly seated in the trem block. Also makes it easier to adjust the springs should you need to, and you probably will. Also make sure to back off the fine tuners as they have a tendency to lock down as you wind the new strings. Post some pics of your 900!

Thanks Mork! We'll know in three to five days! LOL

Yea, figured what the hell. I know one of the generic Floyds with the screw-on bushing is a good deal larger than the fitting on my S-800 and this is like the smallest I've seen, so giving it a shot. Dude... I just noticed that you're in Detroit... I'm right near New Baltimore!

Thanks for the link... I think this is exactly the arm I need... 5mm Push-in Tremolo Arm

Since you've had experience with the swap, I'm gonna defer to your opinion... do you think this would work? Licensed Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo

It took some doing but I got mine set up pretty good. It's at about a 1/4 straight float with the springs pretty much torqued all the way down. I locked down the nut and do all the tuning from the bridge, which seems to work pretty well. Since I haven't had a chance to bend it (with no trem arm!) I don't know how well it will stay tuned but it does ok with the stretches. So could anyone recommend a decent Floyd or maybe a Kahler that I could swap up to without having to do any (or very little!) cutting?

Ok Westone used the same trem on a lot of their models. But it seems like coming up with a trem arm from one of those is even harder than my Epi! Arrrggghhh!!! I'm just gonna grind down a Floyd arm and MAKE it fit!!!

Ok I fixed the headstock pic. Yea, mine is an 87... if I have my chronology right, the 86's had the pointed headstock that year until Jackson threatened to sue them over the design, hence the 87, with the pointy end removed and rounded. These continued for 87 and 88 and then they elongated the headstock in 89, giving them the "hockey-stick" name. That was the last headstock design before they discontinued them in I believe 1992. Do you know if Westone's used the same trem bar as mine by any chance? I have a feeling this thing is gonna be a bee-atch to find!

I'm pretty sure it's an 87... the serial is 71011364, so wouldn't that be October of 1987? And I think they did the elongated "hockey-stick" headstock in 1988, mine is the shorter rounded one... stupid pic!

Hello all! First time writing to the forum but I've browsed here for info before. Anyway, I picked up a sweet 1987 S-800 for $60 off craigslist (gotta love CL!). I've been wracking my brain trying to identify this trem system! I've found info saying that they came with one of three, a Steinberger, a Floyd Rose, or something called an Epiphone Bennder (yes, two "N's") or Bendmaster (?). My bridge has absolutely no branding on it, completely blank except for JINAH stamped on the trem block. I know it isn't a Stein (no locking switch), or a Floyd Rose (they branded everything!), so it must be this Bennder thing (???). Any ideas? And where could I possibly find a trem bar fot it? Thanks in advance! Here's some pics...