Floyd Rose Scale Measurement Question...

[samhell]

Greetings! I've been lurking this forum for a LONG time.

I am building an EVH Wolfgang clone using templates I got from www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com and have a question about where to measure for scale length. I haven't routed my neck pocket yet or drilled anything for the bridge. I have already routed the rear cavities (easier to do as its a body with a maple top) and the through cavity for the tremelo block. So, its a 25.5" scale and if I measure from the nut to the pivot studs its about 25.5" with the neck in position from the templates. If I measure from the nut to where the strings break over the saddles its over 26" with everything lined up from the templates and the saddles set in their middlemost postion. I can shift the neck towards the bridge to get 25.5" from nut to saddle but that seems to put the neck a little too far into the body.

Hope this made sense...

So, I guess the question is, with a Floyd Rose, do I measure from the nut to the studs or nut to the saddles?

Thanks!

[Reinhold]

For every guitar you measure from the nut to where it breaks over the saddle regardless of what type of bridge it is. To me it sounds like you screwed it up a little, but you can probably still make it work.

[Untitled_Project]

measure from the saddles not the posts. My d string sits at 25.5 on the saddle and the low E sits around a 1/4 inch behind the d.

Hope i helped

[samhell]

Thank you for the replies guys! I've built other guitars and have always measured to the saddles but that was with tune-o-matic type bridges. I assumed it was the same but I've never built anything from scratch with a Floyd Rose so I wasn't 100% sure.

Thanks again!

[FireFly]

Since scale length has to do with the length of the strings, you can note that with any bridge, it is measured between the first contact point at the nut and the first contact point at the bridge. Good luck!