PRS

[shreder75]

shawnee said:

I can live with a 10" radius. You can get the action better the flatter you go. For me 12" is the perfect balance bewteen action and comfort. Any flatter than 12", it's starts to feel too flat or even concave to me and makes my hands tired when I play.

and that's the main problem I had with my axis....10" radius...BUT, it had a floyd rose..and you can't adjust the saddle height..so at the extremeties of the neck, the action was quite different than the interior..couldn't stand that...

PRS has adjustable saddle peices I think though, right? so its probably not as much of an issue

[Shawnee]

Yeah, the PRS tremolo has adjustable saddles for height.
I'm pretty sure Floyd's have a 10" radius right? They used to make some thin brass shims that fit under the saddles of a floyd rose tremolo to even out the string height for a different radius.

[shreder75]

shawnee said:

Yeah, the PRS tremolo has adjustable saddles for height.
I'm pretty sure Floyd's have a 10" radius right? They used to make some thin brass shims that fit under the saddles of a floyd rose tremolo to even out the string height for a different radius.

not sure about that..as far as I know, the floyds are flat..at least they seem to be

[Shawnee]

I'm sure that a stock Floyd's radius is not flat. The stock locking nut on a Floyd is a 10" radius. You can buy the saddles individually so if you buy all six the same (or buy 4 the same and match them with 2 that you already have), you will end up with a flat radius. They normally come with 2 short, 2 medium and 2 tall saddles to make a 10" radius. I had a guitar with a 16" radius and I shimmed the saddles (brass shims came from Stewart McDonald) and didn't use the floyd nut because the nut was a 10" radius. I put a Kahler lock behind the nut and it worked out pretty well. I don't use a tremolo much these days so I like locking tuners with a standard nut and a small shim bewteen the tremolo block and the body that only lets you push the tremolo down and not pull up on it. That way I can drop D tune and it won't get out of tune.

[shreder75]

what's a kahler lock??

being able to drop down without having to retune is nice..I could do that with my axis with no problems....the JP6 isn't too bad when I drop it..just a few adjustments and the rest are back in

[Shawnee]

You know about the Kahler lock...... It goes behind the nut and has the three allen head screws to lock the strings in place. Like on the old San Dimas Charvels.

[shreder75]

shawnee said:

You know about the Kahler lock...... It goes behind the nut and has the three allen head screws to lock the strings in place. Like on the old San Dimas Charvels.

oh, it's a brand of string locks? I didn't recognize the name...but it's standard for double lockign trems....