Floyd Rose / fretboard radius

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I've been thinking I'd like to grab a guitar w/a Floyd type bridge some time. Not cause I use a Floyd, but more so I have a guitar that is equipped with one...just in case(maybe recording or whatever). So I tried out the PRS SE Torero a week ago but the fretboard was too flat for my taste. I'm not a shredder by any means and that flatness feels uncomfortable to me.

What Floyd equipped guitars are out there that don't have flat fretboards? Let's keep it under $1000 new or used.
 
what radius do you like to play? Ibanez is out for the obvious reason being they are almost 17"

The Charvels are 12-16 compound so you have the more rounded top for riffing.
 
The older USA Fender Floyd Strats, they aren't too flat. I forget the radius they used, but I don't think it would be any flatter than 12" at the most. The Charvel Production models start at 12" radius at the nut, but spread out to 16", so that might be too flat at one end of the spectrum. The Charvel would be my recommendation for the $1000 or less mark, though. The older ESP Vintage Plus with a Floyd is another cool guitar for that price range, but I am not sure what the radius was on those.
 
I'm fairly sure the old ESP Strat. guitars with the floyds were 12'', just like 90% of their models. My Fender Floyd Rose Classic Strat. has a radius of 9.5''. Since the Fender is pretty hard to find, I'd look into ESP.
 
Any guitar that you can put a Warmoth neck on? Seriously though their compound radius is awesome.
 
Maybe an EB Axis, but then I'm up into the $1300 range minimum it seems. Kinda sucks, I had a EB copy made by a local luthier years ago that I picked up dirt cheap - shoulda never got rid of it cause it played like a dream.
 
The older ESPs, not so much the newer ones. my LTD is 6 years old and has a much rounder radius compared to my friend's 08(?) guitar of the same model.

ESP makes a great strat, called the Vintage plus, I've seen a few models with floyds, also the older Mirage and Horizon (Mirage = M series)
 
vchizzle":2tlzco5i said:
Maybe an EB Axis, but then I'm up into the $1300 range minimum it seems. Kinda sucks, I had a EB copy made by a local luthier years ago that I picked up dirt cheap - shoulda never got rid of it cause it played like a dream.
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They show up cheaper, but you'll just have to keep your eyes open. They also have the new import models that are more like $550. The Sterling AX40. I assume the radius is the same but I don't know for sure...
 
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