Recessed Floyd Rose and neck angle.

[gingataff]

I'm in the process of pimping up an old Charvel and I want to replace the Jackson JT-6 with an OFR.  That should be fairly straightforward along with some doweling/drilling for the new studs.
The other issue is the neck pocket, currently it's angled which really bugs me particularly because it means the pickups need to be quite high and even then they don't match the angle of the strings (not to mention the screws for the middle single coil aren't long enough).

So I want to have the flush mounting changed to a recess and the neck pocket re-cut without the angle like a regular strat type, but when I asked a repair guy at ESP he seemed to think this would be troublesome, requiring the extensive use of handtools and patience. I thought a quick swipe or two with a router would be enough?

What say you?

[FELINEGUITARS]

Assuming it's a bolt on neck  it shouldn't be difficult at all
The older Japanese Charvels all featured trems that were above the surface of the guuitar rendering the strings at tunamatic like heights rather than the lower Fender like profile
Interestingly enough this used to cause Vai problems andf that is why he used to have a piece of plastic/foam stuck to the front of his Jacksons when he was using them to raise his arm up to a more strat like angle with respect to the strongs

What will be required is an overhead router or milling machine to make the neck pocket parallel to the face of the guitar (A router used on the face of the guitar would work equally well).
A strat like height can then be achieved and a careful up-pull rout machined under where the trem sits created
The bridge pivot posts will need to be removed, drilled deeper and set in so that they are flush with the recess routing

It is a task that I have done a million times having worked on so many Floyd equipped guitars
I did it to my old 1986 charvel - seen below

[gingataff]

Assuming it's a bolt on neck  it shouldn't be difficult at all
The older Japanese Charvels all featured trems that were above the surface of the guuitar rendering the strings at tunamatic like heights rather than the lower Fender like profile
Interestingly enough this used to cause Vai problems andf that is why he used to have a piece of plastic/foam stuck to the front of his Jacksons when he was using them to raise his arm up to a more strat like angle with respect to the strongs

What will be required is an overhead router or milling machine to make the neck pocket parallel to the face of the guitar (A router used on the face of the guitar would work equally well).
A strat like height can then be achieved and a careful up-pull rout machined under where the trem sits created
The bridge pivot posts will need to be removed, drilled deeper and set in so that they are flush with the recess routing

It is a task that I have done a million times having worked on so many Floyd equipped guitars
I did it to my old 1986 charvel - seen below

Thanks Jonathan, yes it is bolt on (AFAIK a version of the Model series rather imaginatively called the "HSH")
It's good to know there's love for these guitars on this forum :)

Here's a pic I took when I bought it. It's since had a good clean, a set of Painkillers and a Trilogy Suite added, and it's also suffered from a broken headstock and one of the bridge studs fell out! Poor old girl needs some looking after.