Recently acquired a Peavey Wolfgang standard and I am trying to get the action a bit lower.
The first question I have is related to the radius of the fretboard in relation to the radius of the Floyd saddles. My understanding is the guitar has a 15" radius while Floyd's are typically 12". I haven't pulled the bridge apart to look nor have I measured anything, but I am getting the impression they are indeed off from each other. The strings seem to be a bit higher in the middle. Is that normal? Should I try to shim the saddles to create a matching 15" radius? My LP Axcess has a 12" radius and definitely feels more consistent across the strings.
My second challenge is around balancing the string height and how the bridge is sitting on the non floating trem route. When I got it, I noticed the action was a little higher than I like but the bridge was sitting with the front dipped lower than the back. On floating bridges that is corrected by tightening the claw screws, but that is not possible because the back of the bridge is already in contact with the body.
I tried putting in some shims I had from StewMac. The 1 degree shim was way too much. The .5 was probably usable, but now my problem went in reverse meaning the front of the bridge had to go higher than the back. The action was still a little too low now with the .5 in before I just reverted back to no shim at all. I was starting to get uncomfortable with just how much I had to back out the trem studs to keep getting the action up.
So I am back to no shim and have the studs down pretty far and a tilted forward bridge. I would still like the action a little lower, but I also seem to have a slight dead spot when I bend at the 15th fret so that may be more on the frets themselves.
Just curious about the radius thing and if anyone else has played with the setups on these and ran into similar situations the non floating trem route has me in here.
The first question I have is related to the radius of the fretboard in relation to the radius of the Floyd saddles. My understanding is the guitar has a 15" radius while Floyd's are typically 12". I haven't pulled the bridge apart to look nor have I measured anything, but I am getting the impression they are indeed off from each other. The strings seem to be a bit higher in the middle. Is that normal? Should I try to shim the saddles to create a matching 15" radius? My LP Axcess has a 12" radius and definitely feels more consistent across the strings.
My second challenge is around balancing the string height and how the bridge is sitting on the non floating trem route. When I got it, I noticed the action was a little higher than I like but the bridge was sitting with the front dipped lower than the back. On floating bridges that is corrected by tightening the claw screws, but that is not possible because the back of the bridge is already in contact with the body.
I tried putting in some shims I had from StewMac. The 1 degree shim was way too much. The .5 was probably usable, but now my problem went in reverse meaning the front of the bridge had to go higher than the back. The action was still a little too low now with the .5 in before I just reverted back to no shim at all. I was starting to get uncomfortable with just how much I had to back out the trem studs to keep getting the action up.
So I am back to no shim and have the studs down pretty far and a tilted forward bridge. I would still like the action a little lower, but I also seem to have a slight dead spot when I bend at the 15th fret so that may be more on the frets themselves.
Just curious about the radius thing and if anyone else has played with the setups on these and ran into similar situations the non floating trem route has me in here.