Soloist Project: Non-recessed Floyd/Action Issues

[Thomas-Hawk]

Hi guys,

So I'm working on my Soloist build, which has a non-recessed Original Floyd Rose, and the angled neck pocket.  Using a Warmoth compound radius Strat neck, nothing fancy.  I have to have the Floyd up very high to avoid fret buzz from frets 15 and up.  Too high for my liking.

Should I have gotten the recessed Floyd routing option on the Soloist body?  Or am I missing something with my setup?

If it helps, I don't want/need to pull up on the bar, so I'm using a tremolo stopper.  Also using a D-Tuna, which requires the bridge to be blocked/stopped.

 

[dmraco]

Post a photo.  You neck may be out of shape causing your whammy to be elevated to eliminate buzz.

I have a non recessed floyd with a d tuna.  I tighten the spring so the whammy bottoms out ( cannot pull up on bar).    This also help with tuning if a string snaps. 

Get your neck straight then start to lower the floyd.  Some folks shim the saddles with a radius neck but I found it un necessary.

 

[stubhead]

If you have a compound radius neck, shimming the Floyd saddles to about a 19" radius is correct, to match the compound (increasingly-FLAT) radius of the neck. You would be raising the outside strings the most, the A & B strings some, and leaving the inside ones alone. So, if all the buzzing is happening on just the two E strings and the height can be adjusted so that the D & G strings ring pretty clear, you're in luck.

http://www.floydrose.com/support/faq/saddle-numbering

There are a number of sources for the shims, and better instructions than those - those are merely from the manufacturer.... ???

Do you know how to adjust the trussrod, check for high frets, check the height of the slots in the nut? Because all that has to be squared away (too) for maxo-whammy happiness. There are more and more sources for how to do all that, but we sort-of need to find out what you know already to point you in the right directions. (Plz DON'T start cranking the truss rod all willy-nilly, it ain't a Tonka truck!) Alas, I'm moderately afraid that if somebody tells you, in essence,

"You don't need to shim the bridge saddles, Dude, 'cause I ROCK without them!"
ummm... ummm...
"You don't need to wipe your butt, either, 'cause I live 1,000 miles away! Can't smell a thing, Dude." :doh:

And some may say, "well shimming a few saddles only makes a 4/1000th of an inch difference: well that IS the 4/1000 of an inch that makes strings buzz! The last 8.625% of setting guitars up properly really, honestly, truly is $2,000 worth of the difference between a stock rack Fender and a hooty-tooty "Custom Shop" wallet-muncher. And the other $1,000 is some guy's siggy and the last $587.26 worth is some Xtra-precious case candy. Don't tell Fender I said this.