There will be lots of how to set up you Kahler videos first. Right now I’m working on a carvin with a steeler and I just found out it has an autolatch!
So awesome to know you can do this on a Kahler! I've spent the better part of the last year digging up any information I could on Kahlers after spending my guitar-playing life on Floyds. I recently got my first - a 2300 I'm looking to use on a partscaster build. Your channel has singlehandedly provided more information than the rest of what all I could find on UA-cam. Keep up the great work, and I'm looking forward to learning more from your videos!
I love when I get these comments! The entire goal of my channel is educating people about their guitars. Not that I think I am some guru or anything silly like that, I’m just a super nerd when it comes to guitars! Speaking of Kahler, I am now their guy when it comes to install and setup videos. Gary Kahler himself flew me out to his factory and gave me a five day interview for a documentary I’m working on. And to celebrate we are giving away a guitar! More details on my channel this Saturday!
Back in the day I had a Flyer and replaced the cam for the pro and had set up with 9s ,the magic set up for flutter and everything else to me is one heavy spring and one regular spring and the longer arm with metal tip or the heavier arm, eventually I upgraded the whole bridge to the pro with palm lever and did the one heavy spring mod and it worked perfectly for almost 40 years now
Never knew a Kahler could flutter? Black Magic I says , I always thought the hard tail Kahlers Megadeth used were really cool looking I’m a tinkerer and a mechanic and the Kahler and Floyd Rose are both beautiful engineering and mechanical functioning machines and machinery, equipment and tools are functional art to my eyes. In other words a full polish combination wrench is about as beautiful as a priceless painting to me and about a billion times more useful. Seriously I thought the Kahlers “smooth” operation would keep it from fluttering.
You Will especially like this then… The kahler as we know it is a combination of engineering between Gary Kahler, a farm kid that learned how to fix things to keep the farm going and Dave Storey, a mechanic that really knew cams and how they work. I spent 5 days at the Kahler factory and you would not believe the amount of work that goes into these things. Plus, Gary is always working on the next amazing thing. There are two versions of the next amazing thing that are slotted for October!
Awesome video man! I didn’t know that the clutch tightened the whammy bar! I’m gonna have to adjust all my kahlers now!! Found out about your channel on Facebook on the kahler tremolo fan page! Excited for your giveaway! 👏😁
I’m so glad my video helped you learn about a feature of your kahler. That’s the entire reason I made my channel. I love guitars and I truly believe setup is everything. You could have a Ferrari but if one spark plug is bad it won’t perform worth a crap. This is the whole reason Gary Kahler asked me to do his videos. It was such high praise when he told me I was doing what he has been meaning to do better than he could do it. What a compliment that is! As these Kahler videos come out you will know how to do absolutely everything to your Kahler to make it the best it can be. And the giveaway, well… that guitar is just turning into something that will be mind blowing!
@@REXYLAB yep I bought it brand new way back in the day in Heidelberg Germany when I was living over there. Was a great guitar until I found a round file and thought to myself if Yngwie can do it. Why can’t I… Lol
Cool video man. Ive never seen a Kahler tear down before! The doctor says i MIGHT be able to go home tomorrow, and i haven't seen my guitars in a month. Im gonna look at them now and wonder what they would be like with a Kahler! Lmao!
@@REXYLAB 4 healthy, beautiful, talented daughters. A beautiful wife. Finding my passions for music and art and having been encouraged to pursue them far enough to fulfill that drive. My life is pretty complete already. But finding my Kahler would sure fire up the memories! It will be loved, thats for sure, and it would be played ALL the time!
I had a Washburn G35k back in high school and just bought a used one. The Kahler on it doesn't quite return to pitch when the bar is used. Think it just needs new springs?
@@JohnnyMrHattersmith first, is it for sure a Kahler and not a wonderbar? If it is there is a real Kahler there is a Good possibility it was installed aftermarket. Send me a picture of it at the eddie@rexylab.net and I’ll help you figure out a solution. Plus, I will be doing a full tear down and rebuild video on all Kahler models so you will know them inside and out if you wish.
I may develop a existential crisis if I dont find out soon how the hybrid manages to stay in tune if you snap a string, or allows for in tune double stops😂 no seriously Id like to marvel about those engineering ideas and how they work in practice. So yeah, please a video about engaging a backstop on a kahler or why it is not necessary. Might include that in your big kahler vid.
It’s weird how there are two such split camps on the Kahler/floyd thing. It’s like if someone said what do you like, pizza or cheeseburgers? You can only pick one and are not allowed to like them both. While the Floyd and the Kahler definitely behave differently they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Personally I prefer a fulcrum to a cam but the harmonic breakup of a cam is much easier to control. They are just different tools in the toolbox. Plus, the Floyd isn’t even the best fulcrum design, it comes in about 4th place (in my opinion) as a Ibanez edge or a gotoh 1996T outperform the original Floyd Rose in almost every way. But, the best fulcrum by far I have ever encountered is the Kahler Steeler. And that’s the old one from the late 80s/early 90s. All kidding aside, great comment.
@@REXYLAB I’m particularly enjoying the new updated Schaller Lockmeister. That’s my candidate for beat tremolo on the fact that you can radius match the nut and bridge for your fretboard and no need for shims.
@@genghisghost I haven’t gotten one of those yet but I will to test this clever new apparatus. Full video on the prototype this Saturday on this channel. Floyd Rose to fixed bridge ua-cam.com/users/shortsIvnQ5zqKkoc?feature=share
Loved your Gary Kahler interview and looking forward to your Kahler documentary!!
There will be lots of how to set up you Kahler videos first. Right now I’m working on a carvin with a steeler and I just found out it has an autolatch!
The Spyder had replacable pieces pieces where it meets the posts, they call them the hourglass hinge.
@@cecilmusick8629 yep, the body is zamic 7 so it needs the steel inserts.
So awesome to know you can do this on a Kahler! I've spent the better part of the last year digging up any information I could on Kahlers after spending my guitar-playing life on Floyds. I recently got my first - a 2300 I'm looking to use on a partscaster build. Your channel has singlehandedly provided more information than the rest of what all I could find on UA-cam. Keep up the great work, and I'm looking forward to learning more from your videos!
I love when I get these comments!
The entire goal of my channel is educating people about their guitars. Not that I think I am some guru or anything silly like that, I’m just a super nerd when it comes to guitars!
Speaking of Kahler, I am now their guy when it comes to install and setup videos. Gary Kahler himself flew me out to his factory and gave me a five day interview for a documentary I’m working on.
And to celebrate we are giving away a guitar! More details on my channel this Saturday!
@REXYLAB I've been seeing your updates on the documentary from the Facebook group, that's awesome! Will be keeping an eye out Saturday too!
Im always learning something new in your videos and seeing parts of the guitar I haven't seen disassembled before. 👍
That’s great! The more we know the less something seems impossible to do.
Back in the day I had a Flyer and replaced the cam for the pro and had set up with 9s ,the magic set up for flutter and everything else to me is one heavy spring and one regular spring and the longer arm with metal tip or the heavier arm, eventually I upgraded the whole bridge to the pro with palm lever and did the one heavy spring mod and it worked perfectly for almost 40 years now
I’ll give that a try and see how it works for me.
Never knew a Kahler could flutter? Black Magic I says , I always thought the hard tail Kahlers Megadeth used were really cool looking I’m a tinkerer and a mechanic and the Kahler and Floyd Rose are both beautiful engineering and mechanical functioning machines and machinery, equipment and tools are functional art to my eyes. In other words a full polish combination wrench is about as beautiful as a priceless painting to me and about a billion times more useful.
Seriously I thought the Kahlers “smooth” operation would keep it from fluttering.
You Will especially like this then…
The kahler as we know it is a combination of engineering between Gary Kahler, a farm kid that learned how to fix things to keep the farm going and Dave Storey, a mechanic that really knew cams and how they work.
I spent 5 days at the Kahler factory and you would not believe the amount of work that goes into these things.
Plus, Gary is always working on the next amazing thing. There are two versions of the next amazing thing that are slotted for October!
Wow! Thanks for this upload! I have flyers installed on both my strats. This pretty much answers my question if you could swap cams!
I will have all kinds of information on how to upgrade a flyer to 2300 parts as well as how to rebuild a flyer completely as time goes on.
Awesome video man! I didn’t know that the clutch tightened the whammy bar! I’m gonna have to adjust all my kahlers now!! Found out about your channel on Facebook on the kahler tremolo fan page! Excited for your giveaway! 👏😁
I’m so glad my video helped you learn about a feature of your kahler. That’s the entire reason I made my channel.
I love guitars and I truly believe setup is everything. You could have a Ferrari but if one spark plug is bad it won’t perform worth a crap.
This is the whole reason Gary Kahler asked me to do his videos. It was such high praise when he told me I was doing what he has been meaning to do better than he could do it.
What a compliment that is!
As these Kahler videos come out you will know how to do absolutely everything to your Kahler to make it the best it can be.
And the giveaway, well… that guitar is just turning into something that will be mind blowing!
Awesome vid I love seeing stuff about kahler
The best is yet to come.
another great episode!
Thak you so much! That is high praise coming from such a talented guitar builder!
You could use some Teflon tape on the arm's threads to tighten it up if you do not have the parts.
You could but that fails pretty quickly, this works forever.
I use the Teflon tape trick where I have to but in this case you don’t have to.
great video!
Thank you!
Wow, had a white version of that aria. Haven’t thought about that guitar forever!
I love this guitar!
@@REXYLAB yep I bought it brand new way back in the day in Heidelberg Germany when I was living over there. Was a great guitar until I found a round file and thought to myself if Yngwie can do it. Why can’t I… Lol
@@kard2565 oh no!
I’ve done similar things in my youth.
Cool video man. Ive never seen a Kahler tear down before! The doctor says i MIGHT be able to go home tomorrow, and i haven't seen my guitars in a month. Im gonna look at them now and wonder what they would be like with a Kahler! Lmao!
You should have at least one with a Kahler.
@@REXYLAB Oh i will. Someday i will.
@@stevenpipes1555 then your life shall be complete!
@@REXYLAB 4 healthy, beautiful, talented daughters. A beautiful wife. Finding my passions for music and art and having been encouraged to pursue them far enough to fulfill that drive. My life is pretty complete already. But finding my Kahler would sure fire up the memories! It will be loved, thats for sure, and it would be played ALL the time!
🤯Killer!
🙏 Thanks!
I had a Washburn G35k back in high school and just bought a used one. The Kahler on it doesn't quite return to pitch when the bar is used. Think it just needs new springs?
It would certainly be a good place to start, Kahler recommends changing the springs every 3-5 years.
@@JohnnyMrHattersmith first, is it for sure a Kahler and not a wonderbar? If it is there is a real Kahler there is a
Good possibility it was installed aftermarket.
Send me a picture of it at the eddie@rexylab.net and I’ll help you figure out a solution.
Plus, I will be doing a full tear down and rebuild video on all Kahler models so you will know them inside and out if you wish.
@@REXYLAB Will do, its definitely a real Kahler
I've played kahler's for years, since the 1980s, and I love them but I never could get a flutter. I don't know why people hate them so much though.
Can you get yours to flutter now?
I think we are about to see a resurgence in the kahler vibrato system.
Awesome😂
👍
I may develop a existential crisis if I dont find out soon how the hybrid manages to stay in tune if you snap a string, or allows for in tune double stops😂 no seriously Id like to marvel about those engineering ideas and how they work in practice. So yeah, please a video about engaging a backstop on a kahler or why it is not necessary. Might include that in your big kahler vid.
That will be in something coming up that is completely separate… and very soon!
Is a $150 upgrade, not cheap, but do the job
how to make a Kahler flutter: swap it for a Floyd
jokes aside, good video!
It’s weird how there are two such split camps on the Kahler/floyd thing. It’s like if someone said what do you like, pizza or cheeseburgers? You can only pick one and are not allowed to like them both.
While the Floyd and the Kahler definitely behave differently they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Personally I prefer a fulcrum to a cam but the harmonic breakup of a cam is much easier to control. They are just different tools in the toolbox.
Plus, the Floyd isn’t even the best fulcrum design, it comes in about 4th place (in my opinion) as a Ibanez edge or a gotoh 1996T outperform the original Floyd Rose in almost every way. But, the best fulcrum by far I have ever encountered is the Kahler Steeler. And that’s the old one from the late 80s/early 90s.
All kidding aside, great comment.
@@REXYLAB I’m particularly enjoying the new updated Schaller Lockmeister. That’s my candidate for beat tremolo on the fact that you can radius match the nut and bridge for your fretboard and no need for shims.
@@genghisghost I haven’t gotten one of those yet but I will to test this clever new apparatus. Full video on the prototype this Saturday on this channel.
Floyd Rose to fixed bridge
ua-cam.com/users/shortsIvnQ5zqKkoc?feature=share