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  1. Well, it works in my mind, I just wanted to know if it's an acceptable solution to my problem. It seems that it is, though, so I will go right ahead and do it. Cheers!!
  2. OK, so thanks to the advice before, both of my bolt-on neck guitars now have lovely low action. However.. in looking at my Schecter Strategy (80's strat clone..) I am faced with another drama. The thing has a set neck, and being like a Strat it has no neck angle at all. Basically at the 22nd fret the fretboard is the same height as the pickup, which would be fine, except the stock bridge's lowest height (it's sort of a cross between a kahler, a floyd and a stock fender trem.. interesting) is far too high for nice low action. There's unfortunately no way I can bow the neck back far enough to get decent action, as of course the strings bottom out. So, that leaves me with two options, get the neck reset or replace the bridge. I can't get a whammy bar for the bridge (weird thread size, it's like an OFR but the collar is slightly bigger) so I figure... why cut the neck off? My question is this : will I be able to set a floyd really low into the body, thus lowering my action? ie, the lowest setting at the saddles will be approximately the same height as the pickups, then I can raise the height up to suit. I'll take some photos when I get a camera (have to buy another one, mine just died) to hopefully illustrate what I'm asking. Cheers
  3. Thank you so much for all your trouble, I really appreciate it.
  4. Ah, I don't mind the wood contact thing, honestly I'm not that precious about tone. (yet hehehe) So, angling the neck back is OK? I thought about it in my mind, and if I keep the neck straight with the body of the guitar, then my action is pretty limited to my nut height, right? So, angling the neck back gives me more options as far as truss rod adjustment, etc. I think I know what I'll do now. Someone mentioned guitar picks as a shim, which sounds good to me as they're nice and hard and cheap , but on another forum someone mentioned that my guitar is basswood, and a shim will just compress into the wood. Do you think that's an issue I should worry about, or just shim the neck and be done with it?
  5. Heh, I paid to get it installed before I was interested in messing with guitars myself.. actually when I restrung the kahler the first time, that's when I decided messing with guitars wasn't that hard. Anyway, the action felt fine when I was using really light strings, (38 ) and I have tens on my other guitar. It was about a year ago (eh, hopeless I know) so I doubt the guy will work on it now for free... Anyway you have answered my question in part, what I really want to know now is the difference between the two methods of fixing the problem. How will each of them affect the action? I would ultimately like to have ridiculous low action (about 1.5mm), with minimal fret buzzing. My way of thinking is that a flat neck will offer better playability, but as I said I am new to neck adjustment so I could be wrong.
  6. OK, heres the full story - the RS530 originally comes with a "rock pro" tremolo, a sort of floyd rose imitation. Someone replaced that with a hardtail bridge. I decided that a tremolo would be a nice idea, so I got a kahler and had it installed. It has been installed correctly, it's just the guitar was never designed for such a tremolo. The guitar hasn't been chopped at all, as the kahler is pretty much flush mount and there is already a hole for the original tremolo. I am tempted to get it flush mounted, but then I have to keep the trem with the guitar permanently, and if I ever decide to sell the guitar it has to go with the kahler... can someone please explain to me how angling the neck back further will alleviate my problem? Surely the relative height of the bridge will remain much the same, and I will have to bow the neck in further to avoid the strings buzzing at low frets? Sorry, I have never really messed with neck angles before.
  7. As mentioned in a previous post, I have an 85 Ibanez roadstar II, (RS530bk 24 frets, push pots that still work after 20 years, and sweet sweet red binding) with a kahler pro tremolo installed. Basically, my problem is that I cannot lower the action any further without the bass strings coming out of the rollers, and on the higher strings, the screw to adjust intonation is higher than the roller. At their lowest setting, my action at the 24th fret is about 5mm, and at the 12th I have about 3 mm. The only thing I can think of doing to fix it is somehow shimming the neck to be higher. The neck is nice and straight, slight inward bow (when I had a fixed bridge on the guitar I had really low action, about 1.6 mm at the 12th fret, and I like a slight bow to keep the low frets from buzzing). Any suggestions? Is shimming the neck the best option or is there some other way (short of recessing the bridge into the body) that I can fix it? Thanks in advance
  8. I have a kahler in my roadstar, and I must say it feels a lot nicer to play on than a floyd (palm muting etc), individual string adjustment is also useful as the roadstar fretboard isn't 100 percent flat. I think the real strength of the kahler is that you can pull up the trem a lot more, especially if you have super low action, as with a floyd, as you pull up, the strings pull toward the fretboard. But, with a kahler, you can't drop the strings until they're all floppy, ie, floyd does better dive bombs. Also, as someone said, if you have a nice wood guitar you don't have to ruin it to install a kahler, and even though my trem is really really old (early 80's?) it still feels indestructible. However, the trem arm design of kahlers (I have an old US made kahler pro) is kind of retarded, it screws in like a fender bridge, and unfortunately with mine I can't find a stiff point so I can flick it up and down. The Ibanez edge pro trem arm, IMO, is much better.
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