Had some playing time yesterday so I gave the Charvel (San Dimas Style 2) a go. This is one of those guitars with an excellent playing neck & my preferred humbuckers to boot. However, the FR bridge is a down right nuisance. As this is the older American model, it has no cavity under the bridge so if you whammy excessively, there is a real chance of denting the body surface. Also, due to that cavity absence, the bridge was mounted higher to allow a two-way action. This doesn't affect the string action as the neck was angled appropriately, if you are the palm muting type, you'd wished the bridge was sitting flushed against the body surface for a better peace of mind. Nevertheless, this remains to be one of my better sounding guitars due to its overall weight which churns out lots of inviting bottom end 😀
2 comments:
i bet so-cal's neck also sports with similar trait
Nice guitar!
Mine is top mount too, you can't put a evh d-tuna on a floating bridge
It's a PIA, but sometimes you have to shim the neck to get the Floyd setup perfect.
add in a tremol no if your worried about the top. Mine has direct mount pups, something else I have to goof with doing a proper setup..
cheers!
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