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Do a google search and there's some great advice available about it. No need to be scared. It's a perfectly natural thing is balance
I've had several Floyd Rose guitars. I eventually disabled the trems on all of them. Its not difficult. It'll typically will take between 25 - 45 minutes using a ruler, some wood, and a saw. With the FR properly set, measure the 2 gaps in the trem cavity. Cut the wood blocks to size and slide them in snug.
This is my Jackson Soloist. I originally only blocked the raising side. This allowed me to do double stop bends etc. It also permits easy string changes. Later, my luthier blocked up the other side. He said it made for a better fix.
The other advantage of a Floyd is tuning stability (again, as mentioned above): at the Jimi Hendrix thing I went to last week, I took my guitar out of the gig bag, strummed a chord to check I was in tune and I was good to go; everyone else with their hardtails and traditional trems had to pass around a tuner
Don't listen to the naysayers and give it a go is my advice.
I've never found the bending double stop or unison bend 'issue', any issue. and you can get them up to down bend only if you wanted to.
If you wanted to convert it to hardtail - you can do it a number of ways - as the previous chaps have noted.
I'm echoing some of the others guys (and I'm sure there will be equal/more people who will disagree) - but Floyds are fine - certainly nothing to concerned about.
Give it a a go - you might love them!
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* Hamer SS2 & T62
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