These are the pivot studs the Floyd Rose Special tremolo rocks on — the two points of contact between the knife edges and the body. When a stud wears oval, corrodes, or was never the right diameter to begin with, the bridge cannot return to the same position twice. Replacing the studs is often the fix before replacing the bridge. This is a factory replacement set for the Special Series, finished in antique silver, hardened steel, set of two.

Whether these studs fit your guitar is decided by the threaded inserts already pressed into the body — not by the bridge sitting on top. Stud and insert diameters differ between Floyd Rose series and between metric and imperial bodies, and those dimensions are not interchangeable. If the insert in your body is not the correct diameter for Special Series studs, the stud will not thread in correctly. Pulling an insert to swap it is a bench job; if you are not certain which inserts are in your guitar, measure the existing stud shank or bring the guitar in before ordering.

The studs are hardened steel. That matters because the knife edges bear directly on the stud radius under string tension and every dive-bomb cycles that contact point. Soft studs peen over; a peened stud creates a dead zone the knife edge cannot reset from. Hardened steel holds the radius.

If you are not certain this is the right stud for your guitar, send us the make, model and year and we will confirm fitment before you order.