Need Help On A Neck Through!

[shredhed]

This is my first guitar, and I want to build a neck through guitar with a double locking floyd rose pro. I read somewhere that the neck angle depends greatly on whether you use a tune-o-matic bridge setup, or the lower profile Floyd trem. Don't know if it's true, but I could use any help I can get. I'm planning to build the neck out of straight grain, quartersawn hard maple, and I'll be cheating on the fretboard...I'm going to order an ebony 25.5" fretboard with a 12-16 compound radius.

[Bytrix]

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=14036

I think that's what you're looking for?

[erikbojerik]

The decision on which bridge I use is always the first one, because it determines so many things. I almost always purchase the bridge first to have it in hand before I make the first cut of wood, for this exact reason.

Get the bridge, measure the saddle heights yourself, decide on a scale length, then you'll know your neck angle. Draw it all out!!! On a neck-thru, don't forget to factor in the thickness of the fretboard when you determine how to cut the angle in your blank.

[Mattia]

Seconded! Buy the bridge before doing anything about your neck angle. Only time where you can get away with not doing that is, well, if you've built the guitar in question before, exactly, or if you're making a strat or tele, standard bridges, standard non-angled neck pocket, standard sized neck.

[shredhed]

Thanks alot for the help