It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Actually it's more about angles and I'm doing a crap job of explaining it. I recommend googling neck shim
If it does need shimming the wrong way, ideally you need to deepen the neck pocket, but this is a job for a professional with the right tools.
"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
On the other hand, while the neck on the Wolfgang Standard is chunkyish, the pocket the neck sits in is thinner than say a Strat, and that's where the professional would need to thin out at an angle.
Well, baby steps, will look into @FX_Munkee 's idea first.
One of the bonuses of the Wolfgang is how easy it is to adjust the truss rod. You might be able to add a bit of bow, which would allow you to lower the bridge. Although TBH if it is 3mm too high that's not going to work.
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.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
I ask because you’ll effectively lose the ability to change your string action. You’ll have to make do with truss rod adjustments and neck shimming only.
The more common ways to set a Floyd to dive only is to tighten the back springs, and either block off the front side of the trem block in the trem cavity, or just let the back edge of the trem sit on the guitar body (the trem bar might sit slightly higher if you do this).
In both cases you can still adjust the action using the bridge screws.
Thanks for your thoughts! I want to at least try having it on the body because of the connection. Sometimes if I'm playing and a chord is ringing out, if I press on the trem with my finger the sound gets a lot more full, bit like pushing the headstock against say a cupboard.
I think having the Floyd floating doesn't make as good a connection. It could all possibly make no difference playing with gain but I'd like to know
You make a great point about blocking off the front side of the trem block, I hadn't thought of that My head says that might improve the connection the way having the trem on the body would, very nice!
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.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
I have in fact switched to a brass block and I think some of the zing went, I've been thinking of switching back to check, but the stock one was puny in comparison (this is a FR Special, I'm guessing you use the full fat Original).