FERNANDES / EARLY FLOYD ROSE (12.7mm) STEEL BLOCK by FATCAT (2 variants)

A sustain block for a FERNANDES Floyd Rose tremolo made from cold rolled steel

this is designed as a replacement  or replica of the blocks on some of the earliest Floyd Rose Tremolo systems made by Fernandes such as the FRT-2, FRT-3, FRT-4.
Some early Whale-tail FRT-5 floyds were made by Fernandes  (at the same time that Schaller had begun making some)

These all had a different screw spacing to attach a block to the baseplate

screws were spaced at 21.6mm apart, and this is what our blocks will match.

This is a 1/2" (12.7mm) thick block in the standard 52mm width with a variety of depths:

Available in 2 different depths:  37mm & 42mm

Very early floyd blocks were often unpainted steel 
Our blocks come with a very thin silver paint on them to protect the steel from premature rust - this is quite easy to remove if you are aiming to recreate that original look and vibe.

Having experimented with many older Floyd Rose vibrato units and discovered that some of the earlier ones had blocks made of steel and that these bridges had a different sound with a tight defined bass and a controlled fatness and a keen treble edge, it led us to have some blocks made from Cold Rolled Steel>

These weigh about 50% more than the original brass blocks they are designed to replace

We feel it is a superior sound , almost removing the deficiencies that a normal floyd has in it's affects on your guitars frequency response, sounding closer to a hardtail bridge to my ear.