QUESTION REGARDING A FLOYD ROSE BRIDGE

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jackson111

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my charvel has a recessed Floyd rose bridge. I have noticed that if I lower the action to much the strings that tend to buzz first are the "D" and "G" strings. so know to my question are Floyd rose bridges flat? or are they radiused to match the fret board? I have seen where some guitar company use shims under the saddles to raise certain saddles. my charvel has no shims at all. well thanks for you guys help
 
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No the saddles on a Floyd follow a arc (Radius) which is either 10" or 12" I don't remember exactly at the moment. Do you know the radius of your neck?
 
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Rockstar216 said:
No the saddles on a Floyd follow a arc (Radius) which is either 10" or 12" I don't remember exactly at the moment. Do you know the radius of your neck?
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If I remember correctly the nut is radiused to 10" and the bridge is radiused to 12" to prevent fretting out when bending on the upper frets. Usually a neck prepped for a Floyd is radiused to 10", sometimes they're radiused to 12. Anything else (like an Ibanez or a Peavey Wolfgang) will have a different setup as the fretboards are flatter (Peavey Wolfgangs are 15").

Is this the factory bridge or a replacement? Which Charvel?
 
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I ask because the neck I bought from Warmoth was a 10"-16" compound radius and for the longest never understood why I couldn't get the action lower but realized I needed shims for the saddles. if the neck is a straight 10" or 12" radius you might not need the shims.

Also another reason could be your truss rod needs to be adjusted maybe.
 
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yeah I might need shims as well then cause the charvel I have has the compound radius neck (12-16) can this be the reason for the "D" & "G" strings having fret buzz as I lower the frets?
 
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Hmmm... I would figure the D and G would buzz more if the bridge was flatter than the end of the fretboard, but sounds like it's not.

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sorry I screwed up on my last post, I meant when I lower the strings not lower the frets, and Gilmour it maybe flatter then the end of the fret board I am not sure
 
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jackson111 said:
sorry I screwed up on my last post, I meant when I lower the strings not lower the frets, and Gilmour it maybe flatter then the end of the fret board I am not sure
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LOL I didn't even realize you said that. I understood what you meant.

Like I asked before, what model guitar is this and is it the factory trem?
 
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I would think it would of came pre shimmed from the factory but if not it's a simple and easy fix.
 
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Its the charvel pro mod wlidcard #4 (dead calm aqua). And nope no shims from the factory. I have had to do alot of work to it.
 
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I have had to take it apart and rerout the pickup slots because they were hard mounted to the body and was easy to close to the strings. I have had to shim the neck to get it more inline with the bridge. Don't get me wrong I love the guitar. It just has a sound, that is unlike any of my other guitars
 
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I've only gotten shims when I bought a Floyd from a shop, and have never had them included when I bought a guitar. I'm assuming Jackson removes them.

While the fretboard radius is 12-16", the radius of the frets themselves may not hold to that for the full length of the neck, or may have enough variance to produce the results you're getting.

As well, it may be that those two strings are rattling in the nut slots where they cross the nut, given the now-lower angle. You might want to look into replacing the nut with one that has a straight up-and-down format, rather than the slightly-curved-forward format of the OFR nut.
 
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Floyd's are generally 12" without and 10" with the shims (which come when you buy it in the box but almost never OEM). Google, first hit.
 
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Not sure what you guys mean exactly, but I have one "SUSTAIN BLOCK SHIM"on my Floyd. What does that do, and what happens if I remove it?;


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Rockstar216 said:
I also removed the string retention plate on mines too.
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do you have a picture of what a" string retention plate" is? Not sure. Is it that the aluminum thing with six parts coming from on top of where the block shim is? the thing that puts pressure on the string lock screws? ;

STRING LOCK SCREWS;


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