Deadgrateful
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Hey all. New here and relatively new to the world of PRS. They’ve quickly become my favourite guitars and I’ve added a Modern Eagle Quattro, a Modern Eagle V Wood Library and a Private Stock CU24 to the stable.
The CU24 is from 2011 and has a very special set of 53/10’s. Sound like pure heaven and is significantly more ‘stratty’ and quacky in positions 2 and 4 than the MEV (ash body contributing to that possibly! Just a hell of a guitar…
One issue though: the trem is basically decked on the pivot screws. It’s either touching the top or is 10th of a mm from it. The back can’t be parallel as there would then be no backwards movement. This is necessary as the action is where I want it (1.5mm on both bass and treble and 12th and 17th fret) and the saddles are as low as they go. The truss rod is perfectly adjusted with 0.15mm under the 8th fret.
Is this going to cause me problems long term, and will it mark/wear the top of the guitar or the trem knife edge at all? It’s quite far off PRS factory specs which seems odd being a Private Stock.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Will post pics of the guitars once I reach the required post count
The CU24 is from 2011 and has a very special set of 53/10’s. Sound like pure heaven and is significantly more ‘stratty’ and quacky in positions 2 and 4 than the MEV (ash body contributing to that possibly! Just a hell of a guitar…
One issue though: the trem is basically decked on the pivot screws. It’s either touching the top or is 10th of a mm from it. The back can’t be parallel as there would then be no backwards movement. This is necessary as the action is where I want it (1.5mm on both bass and treble and 12th and 17th fret) and the saddles are as low as they go. The truss rod is perfectly adjusted with 0.15mm under the 8th fret.
Is this going to cause me problems long term, and will it mark/wear the top of the guitar or the trem knife edge at all? It’s quite far off PRS factory specs which seems odd being a Private Stock.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Will post pics of the guitars once I reach the required post count