Stupid Floyd Pro

[gemini8026]

I had this grand illusion of putting a Floyd Pro in my SL1.

I thought I would make this my workhorse guitar and my heavily modded beast.

Well, First off, the Floyd Pro doesnt fit in the SL1 Floyd Cavity. Requires routing. I took it to a shop, had it put in, had the guitar set up. 60$

Go the next day and the tech said the guitar wont float, it sits on the base of the trem cavity and is at a slight angle.

So its set up and intonated, except im not sure if its me or if the aciton is WAY to high.

I measured the action at the 12th fret and at the 24th. It's 2 1mm picks at the 24th fret and a lil less (mebbe 1.5-1.7) at the 12th. Is that decent, or is that kinda high?

I havent had a solid guitar to play in the last 2 months, and im so god damn mad [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

I havent had pickups because I sold them. Today I got a Duncan Distortion from Jonsgon, its in mint shape, but he changed the screw size so I cant mount it in the ring. I dont know how im going to mount it either, I'll have to find some kinda new screws and re drill my hum ring and the pickup.

I need to vent, I just wanted my "dream guitar" and jus tlike every other guitar I have tried to make more playable, it ends up biting me in the ass and I wanna sell it all so that I can have a fresh, properly installed and set up guitar that isnt hacked to **** and ugly.

Anyhow, I dont have a tape measurer (nor any tools at the moment) so can someone please tell me decent action for the 1st, 12th and 24th fret in MM's?

Thanks!

[xenophobe]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

2mm at the 24th fret isn't too bad. I have most of mine set a bit less than that, and you can't really expect much more than that without increasing the string buzz.

[gemini8026]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Well, I just took a 1.1 mm pick and a .6 and they fit almost perfectly. So it's around 1.7 mm at the neck AND at the 24th, they are very similar.

Im not sure, there is NO string buzz, ZERO

The guy who set it up is a good tech from the sources I have heard. But something just DOESNT feel right about the action, it measures low, but I feel like it's almost sloppy!

I cant play with any sound though, I cant mount my pups to test out my chops [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

Thanks for the response though

[zeegler]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

If it's too sloppy, put some heavier gauge strings on there. The action sounds pretty good to me. If you've got no string buzz at 1.7mm that's not bad at all.

Maybe you should try to find a guitar that you like before you buy it, so you don't have to mod the sh!t out of it.

[toejam]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Why the hell would you take out the Original Floyd that was in it to put in a Floyd Pro? Seems like you just made things worse for yourself.

[OnlineStageGear]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

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[Newc]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Even if it was the JT590 trem, it's still better than the FR Pro. You said you wanted a heavily modded beast, well, direct-mount the pickup to the body, throw the ring on top, trade/sell the Pro for a 590/Schaller or OFR, and dig up another $60 [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Newc

[redmanjj]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

In the past, when I have had stripped or oversize holes in a piece of plastic that I needed to insert a screw into..... I put a small piece of elastic in the whole and put the screw in (the elastic sits beside the screw in the hole). The small piece of elastic adds the tension you need for the screw to hold, and if you use the right color elastic, it's virtually undetectable.

[gemini8026]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Thanks for the tips.

Why did I replace the OFR. I cant stand the OFR because my technique has me ALWAYS pressing down on the bridge. The pro also has a much lower profile and having played one before I bought this one, it's definately better for my tastes.

Thanks for the tips on mounting the pup, Ill try find some nuts or try some plastics!

[Black Mariah]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Show us some pics, if you can.

1.5mm at the 12th fret is factory standard for Jacksons.

[JACKSONWOLF]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

What I do is Solder on a nut to the Base of the screw hole with a 50 Watt Iron), then use a correct sized screw. This works really well. As regards action, yours seems a little high to me. I`ve just measured my Warrior which has a 1mm action at fret 12 and fret 24 on both the Treble and Bass sides.

[gemini8026]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

****it, im so fed up right now with this guitar.

What a ****show. Im more frustrated then you can imagine. I wanted a well playing guitar suited to my needs. I dont have the proper tools, ive been buying used parts, and nothing is working, nothing is working out.

Im sick of it all.

It's all going for sale, and im going to buy a Wolfgang or an Axis!

[LesPaulCustom]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Dude..it's your guitar...you own it and I guess if you wanted to start a camp fire with it, that would be your right, but mother-of-god...WHY? [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

Why would you screw up one of the premier "super strats" on the planet with an inferior trem [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

Good luck bro..... [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/evilimages/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[gemini8026]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

Why would it be inferior?


Same company, made in the USA. No "licensed" crap here.

It's a GREAT trem, much better then the OFR in my opinion in ergonomics, and the same build quality. What do you base your "inferior" comment on?

[lerxstcat]

Re: Stupid Floyd Pro

You say the trem is at an angle. Have you tried adjusting the screws that hold the trem claw? Seems like that'd solve your problem. 5 minutes with a Phillips
screwdriver.

Don't the Axis and the Wolfgang come with
licensed Floyds of the OFR style,not the Pro style?

It's not that hard to adapt your playing style to not push on the bridge; in fact I feel it's helped my alternate picking
by not holding the bridge in a deathgrip. You could kill 2 birds with one stone.