Floyd Rose Radius Question

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I've got a Musikraft Neck and Body on the way and am looking for a Floyd Rose for it. My neck is going to be 1 5/8" with a 16" radius. It looks like all the FR nuts are 10" radius for 1 5/8". Can I use these and still set the guitar up properly? And what about the bridge radius itself? Anybody have any good links to installing/setting up Floyds?
 
Buy some shims and shim the floyd to the proper radius. Here's a cool cheat sheet I found on the internet somewhere:

"You can buy .2mm shims that fit Floyd saddles on the internet in packs of 6 or 12. Just do a google search. To find out how many .2 mm shims to add to each string saddle, see below (note that the D and G strings get no shim):

Fingerboard Radius (at bridge) / E strings # shims / A and B strings # shims
10" / 0 / 0
12" / 1 / 0
14" / 2 / 1
16" / 2 / 1
18" / 3 / 1

You can also make your own shims out of coke soda cans (cut out of the coke can skin, which is about .1mm thick) or you can use copper shielding tape (that you shield your guitar with.) If you do either of these, you should measure the thickness with a micrometer. You can also cut up feeler gages to get your appropriate thickness. Here is a table of thickness to add to each string:

Fingerboard Radius (at bridge) / E strings / A and B strings
10" / none / none
12" / .2 mm / .1 mm
14" / .4 mm / .2 mm
16" / .5 mm / .2 mm
18" / .6 mm / .2 mm

For Warmoth compound necks, use the 18" row for radius at bridge to find out what to add. For some other compound neck, you'll need to estimate or calculate your fretboard radius at the bridge ( the radius flattens as you get closer to the bridge for a compound neck.)
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messenger":3rwl8skp said:
What about the nut?
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Assuming you have no binding on the neck, you'll want an R2 nut.

The only thing wrong with that passage I copied and pasted (from what I can tell) is that Warmoth doesn't even offer any 18'' radius necks, so I have no clue where he got that value from.
 
So I don't need to worry about the radius of the nut?
 
messenger":3cwefmg3 said:
So I don't need to worry about the radius of the nut?
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Nope. The only thing you'll have to worry about is nut height. You want the nut to be as low as possible but without any buzzing on the open strings.
 
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