tlingen
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Should a Floyd Rose always be parallel to the guitar body? On my USA San Dimas Charvel, the Floyd was more matching the neck angle instead. Whats the right way to have it when you have an angled neck pocket?
LP Freak
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I've always heard parallel to the body.
XSSIVE
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yup, they should always be flat when floating. when it's dive only resting on the body you can get away with a little tilt up in the front towards the pivot posts but even then it's best to make it as level with the body as possible. the goal is to have the knife edges of the trem in the center of their pivot points on the posts and have the trem easily return to that center level zero point when you dive or pull up.
glpg80
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should be parallel to the body in a recessed floyd rose body.
the neck pocket being angled allows the neck to be angled, which in turn allows the floyd to be setup with the posts higher off the body, then allowing the tremelo to be setup parallel to the neck, which in turn allows some floating trem action on a guitar that has no recessed cavity. this allows flutter's and small floating action on non-recessed guitars. again, this is only the case if you dont have a recessed cavity.
if you have a floating tremelo and a fully recessed guitar body, it should be setup properly parallel to the body.
if you setup the floyd flush with the body on a non-recessed guitar with the neck pocket being cut at an angle, there will be small intonation issues and/or fret buzz problems.
the neck pocket being angled allows the neck to be angled, which in turn allows the floyd to be setup with the posts higher off the body, then allowing the tremelo to be setup parallel to the neck, which in turn allows some floating trem action on a guitar that has no recessed cavity. this allows flutter's and small floating action on non-recessed guitars. again, this is only the case if you dont have a recessed cavity.
if you have a floating tremelo and a fully recessed guitar body, it should be setup properly parallel to the body.
if you setup the floyd flush with the body on a non-recessed guitar with the neck pocket being cut at an angle, there will be small intonation issues and/or fret buzz problems.
Ayrton
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You want the knife edges to be parallel with the the trem post. This is the most common this I see wrong on floating trems.
tlingen
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Thanks for everyone's input. I changed my Charvel's Floyd today to be exactly parallel to the body and what a huge difference. It plays so much better. It's like I hit a sweet spot in the setup.
Ventura
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Yep... And c'mon, you can tell us just how much FUN you were having trying to re-tune and re-intonate your axe after said adjustment... I swear, OFR's are gonna be the end of metlingen":37i1f707 said:
Granted though, when they're set, they're golden!!
V.