Floyd Rose Nut installation

[PFDarkside]

Is there any practical difference between the front mount wood screw and rear mount machine screw style installations? The wood screw style reminds me of vintage style guitars and the rear mount reminds me of a Ibanez style guitars. If it’s just user preference, which do you prefer? Any reason for one over the other on a new neck?

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

All the installs I’ve done were with the machine screws through the neck, just because that was the standard method.

I always wonder if the wood screws from the top hold the nut as well, but I haven’t heard of any pulling lose.

Routing the ledge is the tricky part.


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[Chris Pile]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

Drilling the holes through the headstock will weaken the peghead at a critical point. The screws from the topside hold very well.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

No matter what it would be a new neck with nut prep from one of the big manufacturers (Warmoth, Musikraft, etc.)

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

Drilling the holes through the headstock will weaken the peghead at a critical point. The screws from the topside hold very well.

Not on a Fender style neck. I have a Kramer with a hockey stick headstock that was once broken off, but the locking nut area was intact.


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[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

I always wonder if the wood screws from the top hold the nut as well, but I haven’t heard of any pulling lose.

Way back when, I bought a Kramer Focus body & neck. The locking nut I had was top mount, so I filled the thru-holes in the neck with wood putty and mounted it into that. At one point, I put 13-56 strings on it and raised the action as high as it would go to use it as a lap steel. If a top mount nut will hold through that...

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

Not on a Fender style neck. I have a Kramer with a hockey stick headstock that was once broken off, but the locking nut area was intact.

One guitar is not enough to reference. I see breaks like this often on Squeebay and Treeverb. The break runs right through the locking nut area.

 

[Masta' C]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

That type of break is much more common on thin-necked guitars, particularly early Ibanez with their Wizard profiles

That said, I'm a fan of the top-mount variety. The through-mount doesn't really offer any advantages that I can see other than being the "original" mounting style, but can, as Goober mentioned, potentially cause weakness in a critical area.

Top-mount nuts hold just fine

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

Reviewing manufacturers, Jackson and Charvel use top mounting and Ibanez uses rear mounting. Ibanez also has the neck volute.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Floyd Rose Nut installation

Warmoth says that the top mounted screws occasionally pull loose, requiring some glue/stuff to add to the hole to hold in again. They recommend the rear screws for this reason. I've got one Floyd guitar with top screws and one guitar with rear screws - no problems with either.