Is there a standard string spacing specification for a Floyd Rose??? Thus far, I haven't been able to find one. I'm curious to see which pickup spacing would be more appropriate in the bridge - 52mm or 50mm.
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Floyd Rose String Spacing:
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Well ur probably just splittin hairs there Robert.I know my Teles have a little wider string spacing than my Gibson clone JRs .Now i know when you buy pickups the you will see a type F on alot of them and im pretty certain those are for the Fender style string spacing.But you got to look at the tailpieces like the old Gibson lightning bar wrap arounds or the wrap arounds that had no intonation abillities on them.hell the string spacing is all over the place and they worked for years.Just sayin man.
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Floyd Rose bridges use the wider 52mm spacing
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Well ur probably just splittin hairs there Robert.I know my Teles have a little wider string spacing than my Gibson clone JRs .Now i know when you buy pickups the you will see a type F on alot of them and im pretty certain those are for the Fender style string spacing.But you got to look at the tailpieces like the old Gibson lightning bar wrap arounds or the wrap arounds that had no intonation abillities on them.hell the string spacing is all over the place and they worked for years.Just sayin man.
True, Goo...i'm just looking to see which of my pickups would be a better "fit" in the bridge....
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Just what I needed!
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The Ibanez Destroyer was built with WHH-IV Wilkinson pickups (without logos) which the builder included at no extra cost. Bridge is 15.0k and the two neck models are 7.6k respectively.
I need to see how they sound when it arrives.
I'm working on another Strat-esque guitar build with a Floyd that's going to get a pair of our own "Supre-Sonics" (16.5k bridge x 52mm and 15k neck x 50mm) so I was just confirming the spacing because I'm not at home to measure right now...
And there ya have it.
The Ibanez Destroyer was built with WHH-IV Wilkinson pickups (without logos) which the builder included at no extra cost. Bridge is 15.0k and the two neck models are 7.6k respectively.
I need to see how they sound when it arrives.
I'm working on another Strat-esque guitar build with a Floyd that's going to get a pair of our own "Supre-Sonics" (16.5k bridge x 52mm and 15k neck x 50mm) so I was just confirming the spacing because I'm not at home to measure right now...
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And there ya have it.
Goo,
Here is a demo of the Wilkenson WHH humbucker pickups used in my Destroyer build...except we used cream/cream bobbins...
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Yes - 15k Bridge X 52mm and (2) 7.6k X 50mm 'neck' pickups...wired as shown:
Here is a photo of it just before it shipped out...while we were trying out different knobs.
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Those are just boxes used to keep it off the floor. It's coming in an Anvil Case...
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For sure....