Floyds, top mount vs recessed.

[CoreyW]

Recessed cause Geometry!

Much harder (not impossible) to properly build and set-up a guitar with a non-recessed Floyd. The neck pocket angle, neck nut, locking nut and several other things have to be just right... and with most guitars, they are not... and string height will always sit higher than on a recessed Floyd.

Can you elaborate on this some more? Being able to fully deck a top mount seems like it would be easier to set up and not having to play the balancing act with a full floating. I have a few strats and there doesnt seem to be much difference between a top mount floyd and a strat trem, some of my strats have a slight float and some are decked and I havnt had any issues setting any of those up.

 

[CoreyW]

So here is the special. The guitar does feel a bit different, the bridge is closer to the bottom of the guitar so it feels like everything is shifted a bit to my right, kind of opposite of how an SG feels like everything is shifted a little to my left.

 

[Shask]

So here is the special. The guitar does feel a bit different, the bridge is closer to the bottom of the guitar so it feels like everything is shifted a bit to my right, kind of opposite of how an SG feels like everything is shifted a little to my left.

Yeah, I always switch back and forth between EVH Wolfgang Standards and PRS SEs, and I think SEs play a lot like SGs. You definitely notice the shift of the center of gravity to where the playing spot hangs.

 

[Bloodrock]

Had many of both. Top mount feels better, plays better, and has better string angle to the neck. Recessed is best for floating and pulling up for Dimebag type playing. But overall I prefer a top mount, dive only setup.

 

[Maguchi]

I'm a Tune-O-Matic or Bigsby dude. No Floyds for probly the last 10 years now. Had a coupla Floyds back in the metal days, but it seemed kind of complex to restring and string choices were limited. But you all knock yourselves out.

 

[GreatRedDragon]

Can you elaborate on this some more? Being able to fully deck a top mount seems like it would be easier to set up and not having to play the balancing act with a full floating. I have a few strats and there doesnt seem to be much difference between a top mount floyd and a strat trem, some of my strats have a slight float and some are decked and I havnt had any issues setting any of those up.

Floyds are thicker than Strat trems. If you deck a Floyd to the body your action will be sky high unless the neck pocket has an angle cut into it or you shim it, and then if your action is too low you need to raise the bridge which will make it float unless you block it in the cavity.

EVH guitars are specially designed to have the Floyd decked down on the body, but if you put a Floyd on a regular Strat and want it setup the same way it takes a lot of trial and error in the neck pocket.

 

[itsme]

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[CoreyW]

I'm a Tune-O-Matic or Bigsby dude. No Floyds for probly the last 10 years now. Had a coupla Floyds back in the metal days, but it seemed kind of complex to restring and string choices were limited. But you all knock yourselves out.

I understand what you're saying, the fixed bridges are so much easier to deal with, the tuning stability for the locking bridges and nuts cant be beat. On pretty much all my locking trems, once I get the strings settled, I typically dont need to touch the tuners again until its time to restring, that cant be said for any of my other non locking guitars.