Les Paul Floyd

[Budman68]

Re: Les Paul Floyd

<font color="aqua">Very nice Jeff, looks great! </font>

[RR05xx]

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Cool.

And me with a lowly kalher in mine!

[Metalcop]

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Tucker is located in Brattleboro, VT, about 1 hour West of me. He charged me $250 for the Floyd install, I provided all of the hardware. It seemed a bit steep, but upon retrospect of all the work involved, I think that I got off cheap. MHGoldtop (Mike) believes that if I had this work done in NYC or by a more well known luthier, it would have been about 3x as much, makes sense to me. Here is the full frontal pic:

[image]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/metalcop/LesPaulFloyd/LPFfull.bmp[/image]

[Metalcop]

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I don't know what the hell is wrong with the pics, they are slower than death to load, and I can't get that last one to work. If anybody can help out, give me a shout, and I will email the pics over to you. Thanks.

[Budman68]

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<font color="aqua">Jeff, you're using bitmap images (.bmp extensions). You should convert them to ".jpg" extensions as they won't take as long to load. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] </font>

[Snow007]

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I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind answering.

I read the LPF, and they always talk about how great the tone of a LP is, but they bash a LP with a floyd. How do you compare the tone from the original bridge to the floyd rose?

Reason I'm asking is because from what I read, it ruins the LP. So do you think it ruins it? Or just make it different?

[Econ]

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What locking nut size did you have to install with the floyd?

[Firebird V]

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i would think 1 11/16ths.
That is the cat's ass fo sho!

[Econ]

Re: Les Paul Floyd

Would that be an R4 then?

[LRGman]

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That is sweet-Saw Schon a while back and thought it was interesting that he has Floyds on everything-I need a Les Paul I got to quit coming to this forum it makes me poor

[No Use]

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i also wondered something also,

neil always says how Gibson has to custom make his pauls with a special neck angle, for the Floyd... If he needs a special angle, how is it that yours could accomadate the Floyd, without that special angle pitch? sorry if this is a dumb question!

just wondering, thats an amazing axe, bro!

[necrotechno]

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Neil's trems are recessed like on a Jackson USA Select guitar. Jeff's isn't, it's butted down.

[MHGOLDTOP]

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now that the guinea pig has proven success, my 54 historic oxblood is hitting the bridgeport next at tucker's....i have been denying myself a Floyd on a Les Paul for years with the excuse that i have 20 other guitars with Floyd's...that thing came out great!

[Oregon Jason]

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I'm still not totally sold on having anything other than the stop tail on a Les Paul...

After you've played it for a while, could you let me know if it was worth it? I may try that someday.

[MountainDog]

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As far as tone, my Les Paul Custom Lite w/factory floyd sounds better than my Voodoo or Studio Swamp Ash, so I don't feel anything was 'lost' by having the floyd.

Metalcop...your luthier did a great job...looks killer and looks factory...here's some pics of mine to compare:
full view
headstock

body rear

floyd recess
floyd top view

side view