Left / Right Saddle Compensation / Alignment

[Juff]

I’m having an issue and this is from factory. This guitar came with a Floyd rose licensed (which had the same issue) i upgraded to a Floyd original.

You can see at the nut, the low B is in a decently ok position. As it travels down the neck it gets increasingly wonky. Like to where it’s flying off the fingerboard practically.

It’s telling me one pic is too large I’ll try to include that in a later comment. The pics may make it look worse than it actually is slightly. Clearly it’s not great and i don’t need to be told that necessarily.

The easiest option would be to move the nut over slightly. I’ve done that as much as i can without drilling new holes. I can easily drill new holes though i prob might want to fill the existing ones first. I can do that by probably less than a mm without disturbing anything on the high e.

The more pita option would be extracting and repositioning the bridge posts slightly, either in addition to or instead of the above option.

I’m wondering though if there exists a saddle that allows for left or right compensation for something like this? I’m guessing probably no but this is in before i go having to do anything too major.

Thanks

 

[Omzig]

Looking at your inlays as a ref marker i looks like you neck pocket is cut out of line by a good 3mm,you might be able to slightly realign the neck by loosening the bolts and shifting it over a little..... that is if this is a bolt on? what's the guitar?

 

[tedtan]

Looks like the neck is off angle. Is this a bolt on neck? If so, it’s an easy fix:

- Loosen the bolts attaching the neck a few turns,
- Flip the guitar on it’s side,
- Hold the neck near the nut,
- Gently but solidly whack the lower horn with your palm until the neck is back in alignment,
- Tighten the neck mounting screws.

 

[Crungy]

Looking at your inlays as a ref marker i looks like you neck pocket is cut out of line by a good 3mm,you might be able to slightly realign the neck by loosening the bolts and shifting it over a little..... that is if this is a bolt on? what's the guitar?

I agree, if it's a bolt on. I can't imagine any other guitar would be that far out of alignment.

 

[Juff]

Hey guys, thanks! It is a bolt on and I’m admittedly pretty rusty with some modifications like this (i guess obv lol,) but hey glad i posted.

It is a mockingbird, the one pic is still too big it’s saying, here’s a screenshot of a different one.

Will try suggestions asap.

Thanks

 

[spudmunkey]

Unless I understand incorrectly, the "OFR" 7-string has a wider string spacing than something like the "Original 1000" 7-string. Is it possible that the guitar's factory licensed trem also had narrower spacing?

In my head, at least from a design/manufacturing perspective, it would make sense that on the treble side, the side with the trem arm, everything would stay in the same place, and the trem would get wider or narrower to the bass side with the different spacing. Rather than having it get wider from the center, I mean, which would have made both the high E and low B strings closer to the edges, which would also move the treble side post location.

 

[nightsprinter]

Since we are talking spacing, I pulled the dimensions for comparison:

 

[Juff]

I’m not sure about all of that tbh. The issue is pretty much fixed with very little effort using the prescribed actions.

Mine is a made in Germany Floyd, it doesn’t say 1000 series or pro anywhere, just mig and original

 

[nightsprinter]

I’m not sure about all of that tbh. The issue is pretty much fixed with very little effort using the prescribed actions.

Mine is a made in Germany Floyd, it doesn’t say 1000 series or pro anywhere, just mig and original

That would be because I forgot to include the most important diagram. Good eye.

 

[nightsprinter]

Anyway, the whole point of posting the diagrams was to show that yes the FR Original you have has a string spacing which is slightly wider than the other iterations.

Glad the simple neck-pull alignment trick seems to have worked.

 

[spudmunkey]

That would be because I forgot to include the most important diagram. Good eye.
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That jives then with my memory: the OFR 7 is 10.8, the Original 1000 is 10.6, so the low B would be shifted over 1.2mm on the german-made OFR. It's possible the licensed that was on the guitar was either that same narrower (or even narrower) spacing.

Glad shifting the neck worked! One advantage of a bolt-on vs a neck-through/set neck.

 

[Juff]

Thanks for this!