Unfixable(?) Fret Buzz, Help me out? |
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Feb 6 2010, 02:28 AM
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Raising the saddle heights at the bridge can only do so much if the problem is neck relief. Have you eyeballed the that, or adjusted the truss rod? barring that, you can take it to a luthier and find out if the neck relief is truly incorrect or if a re-fretting is needed.
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Feb 6 2010, 08:40 PM
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Be aware when you play with your trussroads tho.... Never turn more then 1/4 turn per day. Sometime it can take a while to set the guitar up but you are not ruining everything.
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Feb 18 2010, 03:19 PM
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QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Feb 6 2010, 01:48 PM)  It is so much more rewarding to be able to set up guitars on your own! I think every guitarist should be able to do a basic mainentance of his instruments so I went to a guitar tech and asked him if he could explain me how to set up a guitar while he was setting up mine! Now I can set my guitars up pretty good and practice makes things perfect! well, I think that's a good advice, at least do it once so you can get better eventually -------------------- Visit my:
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Feb 18 2010, 06:25 PM
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A ot of the time the relief in the neck will be causing problems, adding shims (cardboard) isn't the best way to go, unless you want to make a bolt on neck tilt backwards like a gibson neck.
I would say the problem is high frets, after a while dues to a number of reasons some frets can end up been higher than others. even if its just one fret this can mean the action has to be raised much higher than it should be to get rid of the buzz. you can get one of these stew mac from http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_suppl...ret_Rocker.html it will tell you if you have high frets. or you can make one out of a steel ruler & a hacksaw. If you have then you have to re-level and re-dress your frets. You can do it yourself but you need a crowning file and it maybe safer to take it to a luthier. if you are going to start to play around with set up do it on an old rubbish guitar you don't care about, or even better buy on from a second hand store and practise on, even doing re-frets. You wouldn't be very happy if you snapped the truss rod in your les paul standard!! |
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Feb 18 2010, 07:02 PM
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QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Feb 6 2010, 01:48 PM) It is so much more rewarding to be able to set up guitars on your own! I think every guitarist should be able to do a basic mainentance of his instruments so I went to a guitar tech and asked him if he could explain me how to set up a guitar while he was setting up mine! Now I can set my guitars up pretty good and practice makes things perfect! +1 Its easy when You have learned the basics, no mystery at all - presumed that the neck is straight and the frets are OK. //Staffay --------------------  Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Feb 19 2010, 01:41 AM
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Save yourself a hassle and take it to guitar tech. I can setup my guitar no problem, but I just like to go and give a guy to do the job for me, I don't want to bother with it if I don't have to, I mean who likes to adjust trussrods anyway
 One downside of this "approach" is that you have to be sure that guitar tech is the right guy for the job, and understands your needs.
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