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I just bought a junker strat to fix up and have. The neck plays nice, and the fretwork is level, but the frets stick out of the sides of the neck, and have a sharp feel when moving the hand up and down on the neck. It is an unbound maple neck. Im assuming I have to dress these frets. What should I used to do this? I assume I a file to trim the edges, and then a file to bevel the edges? I'd like to not have to spend a bunch on a file...and would like to only spend around $20-30. What should I get, and can I get it from StewMac? Oh and what do you guys use to cut nut blanks with? Will a single file work for this as well?

The locks on my schaeller floyd have gotten really grimy/dirty and are starting to jam so that the little suqare lock piece that is suppose to move, doesn't--making it really hard to change strings. How do I go about cleaning thee things? Someone said to boil them I think? Anyone else do this? If so, for how long sohuld I boil them? What about letting them soak in WD-40? Anyone else run into this problem?

My Charvel has a recessed Schaeller Floyd Rose on it. The string locks are starting to jam up on it, making it a bitch to restring. I figure instead of buying 6 new saddles and spending like $80 for that, I could just buy a new bridge. I'd like to get the floyd pro because it would give my hand a lot more picking room [The fine tuners on the OFR kind of cramp my hand too close to my picking spot.] Can I buy a FR Pro and just drop it in? And while I'm at it...where is a cheap place to buy one of these?

yeah its not being custom made. Im going to mod a cheap prs copy i found, i think.

Hey, Im new to the forum, had some questions to ask so seeked out this site I heard of on the HC forums. Ok, Im in search of finding a nice happy medium somehwere between my LP and my Carvin superstrat. Love the tone of the LP, yet it has poor upper fret acces, and is a hard tail. Love the carvin's neck, double cutaway, and floating trem. Im looking for something to get the LP tone and carvin playability for something around $500 used. However, searching has found me nothing of the sort [the only thing I could find was a PRS Custom...soooo not in my range]/ So my next option was to custom order something to the specs I want. One from warmoth would set me just over a grand! So no to that. So today I found a company called Tradition that makes a prs custom copy. Mahod body, real maple cap. Awesome. However, two problems with this. 1: It is a hardtail [tune-o-matic]. What I want is the ability to whammy down, but I realize I never pull up on my Wilkinson floater, so I want it set up just to go down for tuning stability...so a vintage trem along the lines of what is in a strat is what I want. Is it possible to convert a tune-o-matic bridge piece/stoptail to a vintage trem? I assume Ill probably have to plug the holes from the tune-o-matic, repaint, and then install the new bridge? Any howto's or websites about this possibly? 2: The neck has a glossy back. YUCK! I love my tung oiled neck. If I were, say, to shave the neck so there is no paint on it and it is raw wood again, and then apply tung oil to it, will it work? Will doing this damage the necks stability? I understand Ill need truss rod adjustments to prevent warping/twisting, but it won't destroy the neck because it is thinner and not painted, right? I assume if worst comes to worst, I can cut the et neck off and install a carvin bolt next into it, right? Well, thanks for any answers anyone has.