[Dewy]

I never had any complaints about changing guitar strings on my floyd... it was a "little" more difficult, but that wasn't its major drawback.

My biggest issues were the tendency to go outta tune when a string broke, and tremendous difficulty in getting the intonations set correctly. Most are easy to make slight adjustments to, but Floyd's your constantly removing the string, adjusting, replacing the string, the testing...

also I like to lay my hand on the bridge for a muting technique, and stock floyd's will "pitch up" with pressure on the bridge... so that was an additional mod I had to make on it... gluing pencil erasers on the bottom of it to keep it in place with pressure on the bridge.

If I made a suggestion to a beginner about a floyd it would be not to have one on their beginning or primary guitar. String Thru the body is much stabler and better for sustain. Get a floyd for tricks later when you "have" to have one.