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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I've worked on several guitars with at least one string broken beyond the nut that were perfectly OK though, so it may not be an issue at all.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Just to reiterate as a few comments centered around the saddle position and intonation I did notice at least one saddle had slipped after I took the photo, shortly after I did correct it.
Anyway - Finally got round to having a ‘proper’ look at it,
Mistake no. 1 - buying a PRS with a Floyd!
Mistake no. 2 - I took the strings and springs off!
Polished the frets etc and checked the pickup connections while it was unstrung.
Restrung it and now have a much better idea why techs charge more for working with Floyd’s!
Intonation is now spot on according to my tuner (it wasn’t bad before I started) bridge is level and action is good (both were good before I started).
General opinion was don’t bother replacing the tuners which is fair enough. My thoughts were more moollah for pickups but.....I checked heights etc made some adjustments and don’t think I need to do anything with them - for now anyway.
It’s now like a new guitar (to me) not knowing it’s history it was good to get into it and learn a bit about it. One thing for sure the next string change will be one string at a time!
If it makes you feel any better to know how I learned, it was in the days before the internet, I had never worked on a guitar with a Floyd before, and someone brought me a Pensa-Suhr (over £2K at the time, and this was the late 80s) that he'd imported from the US, and it arrived *unstrung*. As in, no strings present at all... so I had to work out how it all worked, from first principles, just with what I had in my hands.
At that point I didn't even know you cut the ball ends off the strings, it was only after about half an hour of head-scratching and looking for any way the strings could possibly feed through from the back that I finally came to the conclusion that there was no other way it could work! It probably took me the best part of a day to figure it all out. Since then, working on them has been a piece of cake really .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein