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  • Floyded neck with string thru body??

    Can you use a neck from a tremolo equipped guitar on a body from a string thru? Like a early '90's XL neck with a mid 2000's DXMGT body? Or will the scale/intonation be way off?
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    That won't affect the scale length or intonation, but a Floyd nut without the clamps isn't really ideal as a nut. You can't clamp it down without fine-tuners (well, at least, good luck having it actually be in-tune.)

    You could probably have the locking nut replaced with a Gibson-style nut, or add a shelf and a Fender-style nut, but it would look sort of weird.

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    • #3
      The string-thru aspect is what makes this the most difficult to deal with. There are fixed bridges that have fine tuners, they don't look too cool, but Schaller has a fixed bridge with fine tuners.

      You could as Jazz said, add a gibson nut into the Floyd slot, or make a shelf and put in a Fender nut. The guitar would tune and intonate properly, just look a bit different. If you want to go that route though, forget about it looking a bit different and just go for it. Plenty of top guitarists have famous guitars that look like pure beaters (Green Meanie, 5150 tape etc.)

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      • #4
        Or you can just get one of these.

        http://www.allparts.com/ABM-Ebanol-N...n-0624-023.htm

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        • #5
          Originally posted by plon View Post
          +1, It would work, but this is better. plon beat me to it.
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          • #6
            Cool. I may do some mutting.. Thanks
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