I’ve tried five vibrato bridges on my builds so far, exclusively Strats and soloists. The bar is in my hand constantly. Nothing stays in tune perfectly, but some setups are darn close with fresh strings.
Vintage wide 6 screw.
Gotoh/Wilkinson VS100 with Graph Tech saddles.
Super-Vee Bladerunner.
Hipshot US Contour.
Gotoh EVO510T.
While the only one I cannot recommend is the one that is poorly adjusted or maintained, I am wanting to try the non-fine tuner Floyd rose with the LSR roller nut and my preferred Hipshot locking tuners. Guitar will be a 7/8 S-style 24-fret job. Bridge will preferrably recessed and set to float with 11-48 power slinkys.
I’m finding a lack of specific NFT Floyd info. Saddle radius with factory shims, and saddle radius all shims removed, is what I’m wanting. I see some heresay out there about the OFR/Schaller and Gotoh versions but I need the actual specs and not a ‘Googled guess.’
I’ve searched this topic, fruitlessly, so anyone who can give shim thickness, count, and placement to properly radius the saddles on a NFT Floyd for the 10-16” neck would be, like, some kind of hero. Or, I could just go straight 10” on the neck radius... Any pointers on making this work right the first time would be appreciated.
Note: I have NEVER owned a Floyd due to bias from my teens when everything was tuned to dropped D or 1/2 step flat... The 90’s... But as a post-rock, fusion-leaning adult, it’s time.
Vintage wide 6 screw.
Gotoh/Wilkinson VS100 with Graph Tech saddles.
Super-Vee Bladerunner.
Hipshot US Contour.
Gotoh EVO510T.
While the only one I cannot recommend is the one that is poorly adjusted or maintained, I am wanting to try the non-fine tuner Floyd rose with the LSR roller nut and my preferred Hipshot locking tuners. Guitar will be a 7/8 S-style 24-fret job. Bridge will preferrably recessed and set to float with 11-48 power slinkys.
I’m finding a lack of specific NFT Floyd info. Saddle radius with factory shims, and saddle radius all shims removed, is what I’m wanting. I see some heresay out there about the OFR/Schaller and Gotoh versions but I need the actual specs and not a ‘Googled guess.’
I’ve searched this topic, fruitlessly, so anyone who can give shim thickness, count, and placement to properly radius the saddles on a NFT Floyd for the 10-16” neck would be, like, some kind of hero. Or, I could just go straight 10” on the neck radius... Any pointers on making this work right the first time would be appreciated.
Note: I have NEVER owned a Floyd due to bias from my teens when everything was tuned to dropped D or 1/2 step flat... The 90’s... But as a post-rock, fusion-leaning adult, it’s time.