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Ok, was Green Meanie 21 or 22 frets *originally*?
Was it stamped/branded a "Charvel" body or a "DiMarzio" body?
And to avoid causing a scene like I did when I asked what the first pointyhead was - I have a DiMarzio body that was converted from V-trem to Floyd (no, I don't believe it's Green Meanie). The Floyd posts are fine, the Floyd itself is fine, the neck I put on it is fine. The problem I'm having is that the Floyd will not intonate. I thought it was the neck, since it was made by a small shop (Customwoods on Ebay). I measured the neck, and it is perfect. I put it on another body (Charvel Predator with Factory Floyd setup) with the exact same Floyd (strings and all still attached) and it intonated just fine.
I put the neck and Floyd back on the Dim'zo body (just pop the springs without loosening the strings) and lo and behold, the Floyd won't go behind the posts. Both bodies are 22 fretters, 25 1/2" scale, and I swapped the neck the same way both times - tuned to pitch, nut locked, pop the springs outta the back and put it on the other body.
Sooo, how this involves Green Meanie, I'm thinking I need a 21 fret neck, because the distance from the end of the neck pocket of the Dim'zo to the center of the Floyd posts is 6 3/4", yet on the Predator it's 6 5/8" - a difference that should be equal to the difference between a 21 and 22 fret neck heel, correct? Or not?
If that's the case, and GM was a DiMarzio-branded body (whether it was made by Wayne, Grover, or Anderson is not important - if it was made to DiMarzio's specs, they're different), then that's why he had such upper fret access trouble that led to him scalloping the lower horn - the body is too long for a Floyd to intonate.
Also if that's the case, I guess I'll be getting me some green Krylon this weekend [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Newc
Was it stamped/branded a "Charvel" body or a "DiMarzio" body?
And to avoid causing a scene like I did when I asked what the first pointyhead was - I have a DiMarzio body that was converted from V-trem to Floyd (no, I don't believe it's Green Meanie). The Floyd posts are fine, the Floyd itself is fine, the neck I put on it is fine. The problem I'm having is that the Floyd will not intonate. I thought it was the neck, since it was made by a small shop (Customwoods on Ebay). I measured the neck, and it is perfect. I put it on another body (Charvel Predator with Factory Floyd setup) with the exact same Floyd (strings and all still attached) and it intonated just fine.
I put the neck and Floyd back on the Dim'zo body (just pop the springs without loosening the strings) and lo and behold, the Floyd won't go behind the posts. Both bodies are 22 fretters, 25 1/2" scale, and I swapped the neck the same way both times - tuned to pitch, nut locked, pop the springs outta the back and put it on the other body.
Sooo, how this involves Green Meanie, I'm thinking I need a 21 fret neck, because the distance from the end of the neck pocket of the Dim'zo to the center of the Floyd posts is 6 3/4", yet on the Predator it's 6 5/8" - a difference that should be equal to the difference between a 21 and 22 fret neck heel, correct? Or not?
If that's the case, and GM was a DiMarzio-branded body (whether it was made by Wayne, Grover, or Anderson is not important - if it was made to DiMarzio's specs, they're different), then that's why he had such upper fret access trouble that led to him scalloping the lower horn - the body is too long for a Floyd to intonate.
Also if that's the case, I guess I'll be getting me some green Krylon this weekend [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Newc
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