![]() ![]() Unscrew the saddle lockdown screw and you can lift the saddle to shim underneath. You’ll really still have to adjust intonation after this work but doing it this way means you’ll be in the ball-park. ![]() Then you can put it back in roughly the right position after shimming. Stick a little bit of masking tape on the saddle next to the one you’re working on and use a marker to indicate the working saddle’s original position. My advice is to take one saddle at a time. Oh, it might also be worth removing the string clamps from inside each saddle as they have a habit of falling out and getting lost. It’s best done with strings off and, ideally, with the bridge removed from the body. ![]() Obviously, this stacking advice holds for the homemade shims too How to Shim a Floyd Rose Saddle ![]() 005" (.15 mm) thick and you can stack them as needed to achieve whatever height you need. You’ll find shims relatively easily on eBay and - sometimes less easily - on Amazon (both affiliate links but search for ‘Floyd Rose saddle shim’ if you prefer).Įach of these steel shims is. If you don’t want to go to that trouble, or if you prefer the idea of steel shims, you can buy some specially made shims that fit underneath the saddles and even have a hole for the saddle lock screw to go through (taking care of that tilting problem). It’s a bit more fiddly than just adjusting some height screws up and down, but at least it’s possible to do if you’re trying to fit a Floyd to something with a non-matching fingerboard radius.Īs you’d imagine, adding shims under some saddles - say two each under the 1st and 6th strings, and one each under the 2nd and 5th strings - you can ‘flatten’ the radius (go from a smaller 10” to something larger like a 14” or 16”).Ĭonversely, more shims in under the middle saddles - say two under the 3rd and 4th saddles and one each under the 2nd and 5th will give a tighter radius.Įxactly how many shims to get your desired radius depends on the shim thickness so you should expect to experiment a little. Shimsīy inserting shims under some of the saddles, we can change their individual heights. However, it does give is a nice segue into the solution to adjusting radius on a Floyd Rose style bridge. Personally, I’m not so sure this is always true so please don’t blame me if it turns out not to be the case. Floyd Rose mention on their site that there may already be shims under some saddles to achieve this radius and, if you remove them, you’ll end up with a 12” radius. While there are a number of double-locking trem models the Original Floyd Rose ships with a 10” radius pre-set. ![]()
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