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So I picked up a MIJ Charvette 170 a few years ago off ebay and did some minor overhauls as soon as I got it (took out the original pickups and just slapped a DiMarzio X2N, a chrome OFR and a set of chrome Gotoh tuners on it) with the intention of doing some other stuff later but never got around to it and then took a hiatus from playing for awhile. I'm playing again and found a few things off with it that needed to be addressed right away. Figured this long weekend was a good time to tackle this since school has quieted down for now.
First thing I did was finally sit down and learn how to properly set up a Floyd Rose guitar from scratch (intonation was way off). I managed to get A through the high E intonated fine but my low E is set on the far back screw hole on the bridge and it's still sharp at the 12th fret while it's riding up on the back plate.
So far I haven't found any answers to fix this besides re-drilling the posts, is that my only option? The posts are the original's that came with the guitar's JT6 Floyd (which I still have) and I just slapped the OFR on when I got it.
My other issue, also with the Floyd Rose is at the other end of the guitar. The nut system was something I never seen before on a FR equipped guitar and from the day I got it it never locked right. So I've never experience the joys of a double locking tremolo system and because of that I never used the tremolo. Pretty much became an axe that took a lot more work when it came time to change strings.
As you can see in this picture one of the faults of it not locking right is because the E/B strings "clamping plate" isn't much more then a piece of sheet metal cut out.
Is it possible to find a replacement for these still?
I wasn't sure if the other 2 plates that are original are still good or not, the D/G strings plate never seem to lock down much if I recall (sorry it's been awhile since I so much as bothered with the system to remember off hand and I currently have it unstrung awaiting modding).
I was wondering if maybe it's because they're slightly rounded off at the top? I tried to capture it with a picture but it was difficult:
The rest of the project is pretty straight forward and I have a pretty good idea how to go about it. Going to give the fretboard a good cleaning/oiling, route out the neck pickup slot for a humbucker and stick a set of EMG-85/81 in it, drill a tone control knob (the control cavity is freaking huge for only having a volume/3-way switch stock) and wire it up. So that's kind of it for questions, although if someone has a template/suggests on routing a humbucker router I'm all ears.
While the guitar isn't a greater looker (paint job is the previous owner's doing with what I assume was rattle can, ugh. Wish it was just straight black), it's one hell of a player and I enjoy it enough to mod away
Here's a few more pics for the {sarcasm} "eye candy" {/sarcasm} factor, ha!
So I picked up a MIJ Charvette 170 a few years ago off ebay and did some minor overhauls as soon as I got it (took out the original pickups and just slapped a DiMarzio X2N, a chrome OFR and a set of chrome Gotoh tuners on it) with the intention of doing some other stuff later but never got around to it and then took a hiatus from playing for awhile. I'm playing again and found a few things off with it that needed to be addressed right away. Figured this long weekend was a good time to tackle this since school has quieted down for now.
First thing I did was finally sit down and learn how to properly set up a Floyd Rose guitar from scratch (intonation was way off). I managed to get A through the high E intonated fine but my low E is set on the far back screw hole on the bridge and it's still sharp at the 12th fret while it's riding up on the back plate.
So far I haven't found any answers to fix this besides re-drilling the posts, is that my only option? The posts are the original's that came with the guitar's JT6 Floyd (which I still have) and I just slapped the OFR on when I got it.
My other issue, also with the Floyd Rose is at the other end of the guitar. The nut system was something I never seen before on a FR equipped guitar and from the day I got it it never locked right. So I've never experience the joys of a double locking tremolo system and because of that I never used the tremolo. Pretty much became an axe that took a lot more work when it came time to change strings.
As you can see in this picture one of the faults of it not locking right is because the E/B strings "clamping plate" isn't much more then a piece of sheet metal cut out.
Is it possible to find a replacement for these still?
I wasn't sure if the other 2 plates that are original are still good or not, the D/G strings plate never seem to lock down much if I recall (sorry it's been awhile since I so much as bothered with the system to remember off hand and I currently have it unstrung awaiting modding).
I was wondering if maybe it's because they're slightly rounded off at the top? I tried to capture it with a picture but it was difficult:
The rest of the project is pretty straight forward and I have a pretty good idea how to go about it. Going to give the fretboard a good cleaning/oiling, route out the neck pickup slot for a humbucker and stick a set of EMG-85/81 in it, drill a tone control knob (the control cavity is freaking huge for only having a volume/3-way switch stock) and wire it up. So that's kind of it for questions, although if someone has a template/suggests on routing a humbucker router I'm all ears.
While the guitar isn't a greater looker (paint job is the previous owner's doing with what I assume was rattle can, ugh. Wish it was just straight black), it's one hell of a player and I enjoy it enough to mod away
Here's a few more pics for the {sarcasm} "eye candy" {/sarcasm} factor, ha!
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