I may of asked what to use for Floyd Saddle shims before but i was wondering what is best.... i've heard people say Aluminum foil is good... is there real shims made for floyds out there? My Floyd is a cheaper mid 90's Jackson Floyd
Long Story here--- Years ago i paid a tech to take a new 1994 imported Jackson Dinky and re-fret it with smaller frets, as well as re-radius the fingerboard and add a Floyd Rose Original.... This was back in my young and stupid days... now i'm old and stupid... but back then i had won a little bit of money in the lottery, enough to buy this Jackson Dinky... so after a year i thought i'd customize the cr*p out of it as the Jackson bridge never seemed to stay in tune for me.. later from the tech i found out the threaded post inserts were baddly machined and that was what was causing the tuning issues...
The tech tried and tried to talk me out of doing what i was asking him to do... but in the end i forced him into it and what i ended up with was a Jackson with an Original floyd that the saddle on the low E string would not go far enough back to intonate perfect... But it was close enough that it didn't play out of tune to my ears... I used this guitar for ages and i still think of it as my Number one...
Last winter i started to try and return this guitar back to as close to stock as i could..... But i found out i hated the sound of the imported Jackson nut... so i added the Jackson Floyd back but kept the Original Floyds R4 nut in place.... Before the crazy mod's the Jackson had a 16 radius but after the re-fret/re-radius mod it has a 10 or 12 fingerboard radius...
Now with the Original Floyds Nut in place and the old Jackson bridge i have a compound radius string set up as the nut is set for 10 and the bridge i believe is 16... To my surpise it works well to a point and the guitar plays great.... around the Low E strings 15 fret it has a bit more heith off the fingerboard then i'd like but it's not bad..
So if i wanted to shim the Jackson middle 4 saddles to a sharper radius to match the fingerboard and the R4 nut i have on it, what should i use?
I also saw those radius gauges for under the strings that stewmac sells..... has anyone made their own set of them.? I was thinking of making one out of cardboard to help me shim the Jackson bridge saddles....
on another note.... I was worried that the Jackson Floyd would not work with the old Floyd Original Posts... The Jackson when stock had smaller posts then the Floyd Rose Original post that are on the guitar now.. it looks tight fitting but the bridges knife edges seem to rock on them ok.... i didn't feel like replacing the Floyd posts to add the old Jackson bridge back on
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Long Story here--- Years ago i paid a tech to take a new 1994 imported Jackson Dinky and re-fret it with smaller frets, as well as re-radius the fingerboard and add a Floyd Rose Original.... This was back in my young and stupid days... now i'm old and stupid... but back then i had won a little bit of money in the lottery, enough to buy this Jackson Dinky... so after a year i thought i'd customize the cr*p out of it as the Jackson bridge never seemed to stay in tune for me.. later from the tech i found out the threaded post inserts were baddly machined and that was what was causing the tuning issues...
The tech tried and tried to talk me out of doing what i was asking him to do... but in the end i forced him into it and what i ended up with was a Jackson with an Original floyd that the saddle on the low E string would not go far enough back to intonate perfect... But it was close enough that it didn't play out of tune to my ears... I used this guitar for ages and i still think of it as my Number one...
Last winter i started to try and return this guitar back to as close to stock as i could..... But i found out i hated the sound of the imported Jackson nut... so i added the Jackson Floyd back but kept the Original Floyds R4 nut in place.... Before the crazy mod's the Jackson had a 16 radius but after the re-fret/re-radius mod it has a 10 or 12 fingerboard radius...
Now with the Original Floyds Nut in place and the old Jackson bridge i have a compound radius string set up as the nut is set for 10 and the bridge i believe is 16... To my surpise it works well to a point and the guitar plays great.... around the Low E strings 15 fret it has a bit more heith off the fingerboard then i'd like but it's not bad..
So if i wanted to shim the Jackson middle 4 saddles to a sharper radius to match the fingerboard and the R4 nut i have on it, what should i use?
I also saw those radius gauges for under the strings that stewmac sells..... has anyone made their own set of them.? I was thinking of making one out of cardboard to help me shim the Jackson bridge saddles....
on another note.... I was worried that the Jackson Floyd would not work with the old Floyd Original Posts... The Jackson when stock had smaller posts then the Floyd Rose Original post that are on the guitar now.. it looks tight fitting but the bridges knife edges seem to rock on them ok.... i didn't feel like replacing the Floyd posts to add the old Jackson bridge back on
WhoFan
