Standard with Floyd Rose

[Steve Haynie]

I have owned two flat faced Hamers with non-recessed Floyds and a Robin with an arched top and recessed Floyd. The scale lengths were different between the Hamers and the Robin, too, so I cannot make a direct comparison.

The Hamers with the non-recessed Floyds have been the only guitars where the Floyd felt right to me, but it may be because I prefer the overall feel of the shorter scale. The Floyd does seem a bit odd sticking out from the body, but it works. If there were a TOM bridge the strings would be just as high off the body.

[Gabe]

QUOTE Model: Standard Custom Tea Burst

Serial/Stock Number: 554423

Description: New Stanard Custom with a myriad of custom options. Features a Floyd Rose Pro bridge and locking nut, a chambered body, 6100 frets, custom zebra pickups, and an extra beefy vintage neck carve. 9 lbs. 7 oz. UNQUOTE

WOW that is a lot of frets, sixty-one hundred.

And I thought that the famous Virtuoso had a lot of frets!

Gabe

[Kilroy is all about...]

gabe (sincerely hope you're pleased with your purchase and she's getting playin as to being vault vampire under my control) and lockbody...

cool pictures of cool guitars...

kilroy

[Hamers rock]

Very cool, but the black pickup mounting rings look like ass. An easy fix though.

I like the black. Keeps the hardware dark and in the background. Light hardware will draw the eye away from the woody wood.

[Hamers rock]

+1 wht's the point if it ain't recessed? And why is that not the "Proper" way to mount a Floyd?

+ more

I always hated the way non-recessed floyds look, hanging way off the top of the guitar. Recessing is the *classy* way to mount it.

Non recessed floyds give me a little extra to rest my palm on. Easier to to mute.

With most deep recessed Floyds, the angle for my palm is too steep or flat.

So, you can imgaine I USUALLY prefer carved tops, or convenient cuts like my Sceptor (wich is not recessed anyway.).