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For the old boy's 20th birthday, he's been treated to a new set of Seymour's (SH6 bridge, SSl4's neck and middle) and an original Floyd Rose, in place of the JT6. Plays and sounds much better now.
The Floyd has a tighter radius than the guitar, so the action on the middle strings is a little stiffer than I'm used to on the particular axe, but I'll get ued to it. I had to make a little wedge shaped shelf out of an old pickguard offcut to take up the slope where the old nut shelf stops, and put about 0.8mm of flat shim under the locknut, plus I used top mount screws, rather than start drilling through the neck. There's not a lot of wood either side of the truss rod channel to allow this, but I managed it - just!
I also had to use the retaining bar, as the E strings pull outside of their channels in the locknut and need holding down else they go sharp when locking up, luckily it occupies the leftover holes from the JT6/Kahler style locknut nicely!
Round the back in the trunk behind the floyd there's a brass big block.
The Floyd has a tighter radius than the guitar, so the action on the middle strings is a little stiffer than I'm used to on the particular axe, but I'll get ued to it. I had to make a little wedge shaped shelf out of an old pickguard offcut to take up the slope where the old nut shelf stops, and put about 0.8mm of flat shim under the locknut, plus I used top mount screws, rather than start drilling through the neck. There's not a lot of wood either side of the truss rod channel to allow this, but I managed it - just!
I also had to use the retaining bar, as the E strings pull outside of their channels in the locknut and need holding down else they go sharp when locking up, luckily it occupies the leftover holes from the JT6/Kahler style locknut nicely!
Round the back in the trunk behind the floyd there's a brass big block.
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