Andy Eagle ( Guitar repair tech for 30 years )

[Rex]

I had a Floyd question: are there any objective pros to doing a typical recess, over a top mount but with neck angle and/or routing to also have the same level of pull up and dive?

I know the recess looks cleaner, and a basically 0 degree neck is easier to not mess up as opposed to an angle, but idk if there’s actually difference in Floyd function.

There’s a lot to unpack here. Are you talking about adding a Floyd to an existing guitar? If so, you will have to adjust the neck pocket to get the right action. That’s a hassle, but shims can work well, but it’s not as ideal as having solid wood-to-wood contact throughout the entire neck pocket. None of this matters if the guitar was built for a top-mount Floyd, as the neck pocket will already be cut properly for it.

Most top-mounted Floyds can pull up as well as dive, but most recessed Floyds can pull up a couple of semitones farther.

I prefer recessed Floyds. The guitar’s top is cleaner, and the height of the strings is closer to the height of the body where you rest your arm.

 

[jco5055]

There’s a lot to unpack here. Are you talking about adding a Floyd to an existing guitar? If so, you will have to adjust the neck pocket to get the right action. That’s a hassle, but shims can work well, but it’s not as ideal as having solid wood-to-wood contact throughout the entire neck pocket. None of this matters if the guitar was built for a top-mount Floyd, as the neck pocket will already be cut properly for it.

Most top-mounted Floyds can pull up as well as dive, but most recessed Floyds can pull up a couple of semitones farther.

I prefer recessed Floyds. The guitar’s top is cleaner, and the height of the strings is closer to the height of the body where you rest your arm.

i was theoretically imagining a guitar that was built for it, so the neck pocket should be fine. At leat with the caparison I played, it could honestly pull up farther than a normal recessed bridge, using the open G as the base point it could go up to the Db at the 6th fret before fretting out.

 

[Rex]

i was theoretically imagining a guitar that was built for it, so the neck pocket should be fine.

If the guitar was designed for a top-mounted Floyd, then that’s what you want to go with.