anderson review/rant

[dpeterson]

you'll probably go ape shit when you look on the back of the headstock above the G string tuner and see a dowel he uses this pin location for a jig in the cnc. I think G&L's have something similar.

dont bust on Tom.. he's one of the nicest persons you will ever meet.

dave

 

[JTyson]

OK, I came in late, did not see the last few posts

 

[JTyson]

You guys need to stop worrying about this minutiae and concentrating more on how your guitar's 5A exotic woods complement your decor.

Steve

I've got a 2 and a 4 year old. If I wanted my guitars to complement my decor they would need to be made of crayons, apple juice, and poop.

 

[yngzaklynch]

I am done with the Pebble Beach concours fancy smancy blue ribbon beauty contests, lets see how it has held up over 5-10 yers of abuse.

See... its this type of attitude that just pisses me off. To me, a guitar is like a beautiful piece of furniture to be set out as part of my living room's design. I'm looking to impress visitors to my home with the concept of music/guitar - not to actually play the damn thing. There is no greater feeling on this earth than when an envious visitor declares, "MY GOD! The spalted maple top on that thing complements the lines of that Indian drum coffee table superbly!". To me, THAT is what its all about...

Steve

Priceless

 

[JTyson]

On string spacing
The R3 is close to he same string spacing the same as a R2 but it actually is a little bit wider string spacing, Tom is right, the R3 was actually designed for guitar with binding that are 1.680 (1 11/16")
The R2 is a 1.62 width, Tom and I use a 1.65 nut width since I personally dont like supper narrow nuts on guitars, we split the difference on the Modern by making it 1.64 Nut width.

As far as the over hang, it means nothing, the nut is secure and the original installations by Floyd had the nuts hanging over.
The Floyd nut was that width to securely clamps the strings, he never meant people to redesign the classic headstocks.
Here is the problem though, if you design a neck for a Floyd specifically you can not use the same design headstock for a non Floyd, On a Headstock adjustment you would need a deeper length adjuster nut or more the truss rod.
You would also need to either move the gears further away from the headstock or change the radius that goes to the headstock whihc would weaken the headstock. If you were then to use this same headstock geometry on a non Floyd guitar the strings would hit the wood behind the nut.
There is no win here and really nothing to fix.

 

[dpeterson]

Floyd had the nuts hanging over.

come on now.. this is a family website

dave

 

[Suhr]

Its not like I said to make sure the G string does stick in the nut slot.

 

[merlop]

Its not like I said to make sure the G string does stick in the nut slot.

 

[Suhr]

Ok here is a better pic

 

[dfrattaroli]

I had a Floyd equipped Suhr Modern and don't recall it sitting over the nut route at all.

 

[stratotone]

Cool to hear Suhr step in with some good info, never even thought about the truss rod or tuner geometry. Thanks!

I wanted to ask Anderson directly (joined his message board 5 seconds after I got the guitar) but I still haven't been granted rights to post, says that I have to be given that by an admin manually. So I'm *still* waiting....

Wasn't looking for any 'win' here, just curious why. And John hit it. I'd bet that there probably aren't enough floyd guitars sold by Anderson to make it worth tooling up for a different neck is the bottom line.

Pete

On string spacing
The R3 is close to he same string spacing the same as a R2 but it actually is a little bit wider string spacing, Tom is right, the R3 was actually designed for guitar with binding that are 1.680 (1 11/16")
The R2 is a 1.62 width, Tom and I use a 1.65 nut width since I personally dont like supper narrow nuts on guitars, we split the difference on the Modern by making it 1.64 Nut width.

As far as the over hang, it means nothing, the nut is secure and the original installations by Floyd had the nuts hanging over.
The Floyd nut was that width to securely clamps the strings, he never meant people to redesign the classic headstocks.
Here is the problem though, if you design a neck for a Floyd specifically you can not use the same design headstock for a non Floyd, On a Headstock adjustment you would need a deeper length adjuster nut or more the truss rod.
You would also need to either move the gears further away from the headstock or change the radius that goes to the headstock whihc would weaken the headstock. If you were then to use this same headstock geometry on a non Floyd guitar the strings would hit the wood behind the nut.
There is no win here and really nothing to fix.

 

[stratotone]

Oh, btw - set up my gold Charvel strathead (the 1099 list thing) and did a full setup on it - polished the frets, put a set of .009s on her, adjusted the truss rod exactly how I like it (as flat as I can get without causing buzzing on first few frets) dropped the action, lubed the floyd pivot points, set the floyd angle for a 5 fret pullup on the G string and set the action where I like it (crazy low). It would be a great guitar to 99% of the people out there. It really set up nice. However...

Anderson smokes it like a Christmas ham. Stainless frets are smoother than I can polish mine (with a buffer and varying grades of polish) and the guitar just is so much more in tune that it's bugging me on my 'regular' guitars. Anderson is also noticable more 'alive' acoustically and sustains better.



Pete

 

[jcj]

Cool to hear Suhr step in with some good info, never even thought about the truss rod or tuner geometry. Thanks!

I wanted to ask Anderson directly (joined his message board 5 seconds after I got the guitar) but I still haven't been granted rights to post, says that I have to be given that by an admin manually. So I'm *still* waiting....

Wasn't looking for any 'win' here, just curious why. And John hit it. I'd bet that there probably aren't enough floyd guitars sold by Anderson to make it worth tooling up for a different neck is the bottom line.

Pete

On string spacing
The R3 is close to he same string spacing the same as a R2 but it actually is a little bit wider string spacing, Tom is right, the R3 was actually designed for guitar with binding that are 1.680 (1 11/16")
The R2 is a 1.62 width, Tom and I use a 1.65 nut width since I personally dont like supper narrow nuts on guitars, we split the difference on the Modern by making it 1.64 Nut width.

As far as the over hang, it means nothing, the nut is secure and the original installations by Floyd had the nuts hanging over.
The Floyd nut was that width to securely clamps the strings, he never meant people to redesign the classic headstocks.
Here is the problem though, if you design a neck for a Floyd specifically you can not use the same design headstock for a non Floyd, On a Headstock adjustment you would need a deeper length adjuster nut or more the truss rod.
You would also need to either move the gears further away from the headstock or change the radius that goes to the headstock whihc would weaken the headstock. If you were then to use this same headstock geometry on a non Floyd guitar the strings would hit the wood behind the nut.
There is no win here and really nothing to fix.

Hey Pete-

Call the shop and ask Tom. No need to wait for a message board reply. They're all exceptionally cool at Anderson