Help! High strings up at the nut with my Floyd!

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Mayhem

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My guitar with (licensed)floyd has high strings... very high. And now they are as low as posible, not low enough, and extremely low down at the 24 fret.
My strat has lower strings, but it's higher than my floyd guitar down at the last fret.
Today I relaized that the strings are 1mm higer at the nut on my floyd guitar than on my strat. To high nut seems to be the problem. Is this how all floyd is?Anyone with same experience?
 
Re: Help! High strings up at the nut with my Floyd!

The guitar would be hell a lot easyer to play if i got the nut height down 1mm to stratocaster level...

It's a Jackson Ke3 "crap" Kelly by the way...
 
Re: Help! High strings up at the nut with my Floyd!

File the saddles? or file the wood under the nut itself I'd say.
 
Re: Help! High strings up at the nut with my Floyd!

With the strings loosened, unbolt the locking nut from the neck and lift it up to see if there are little aluminum spacers in there. If so, take them out. If not, and you think you can fix the problem yourself, wrap some sandpaper around a popsickle stick and carefully sand that platform down just a little. Very evenly!
If a floyd nut is too low, you'll need to make little shims out of pieces of a soda can, and wedge them between the bolts and the edges of the neck. The goal is to get the floyd nut to make the strings sit about 1mm above the 1st fret.
 
Re: Help! High strings up at the nut with my Floyd!

ok...
It seems like the strings are just a litle higher on the first fret on the Floyd guitar, than on my stratocaster.
One of the problem is that the floyd guitar has ****ing high frets...
I think the guitar need a fretjob soon...

I think I'll smash the guitar very soon :laugh2:

:dance:
 
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