The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Cycleops]

Sorry @raleighnut but I can't agree. Try adjusting the action with the bridge saddles and then tweak the truss rod, that'll pull the neck forward or slacken it back, it'll make a big difference to the action.
The neck should have a very slight forward bow adjusted with the truss rod, then you can go to bridge saddles. Firstly you should of course level and crown the frets.

Try to reload the attachments

 

[Cycleops]

Yeah I know @raleighnut Also the Affinity range is thinner body. This particular one is quite heavy and tuners seem rubbish.

 

[MontyVeda]

The truss rod doesn't really affect the action, it's more to control the relief on the neck and to stop the neck bowing under the tension of the strings. When you try to adjust the truss rod are you removing the strings or at least detuning the strings until at least they are slack, you'll never fight string tension and are likely to strip the threads trying.

The action on any Guitar/Bass is adjusted at the 'Nut' and the Bridge so unless there is excess 'relief' on the neck (i.e. it's bent) fiddling with the truss rod won't achieve anything.

It really really does.

 

[Drago]

It alters the action significantly. That's guitar set up 101, lesson 1.

How can either straightening a neck or allowing more bow into a neck not affect the action?

I'm down from 5 to 3 mm at the 17th fret, solely as a result of the truss rod adjustment.

Filing or shimming the nut is another, albeit totally separate, means by which the action can be altered.

 

[raleighnut]

Sorry @raleighnut but I can't agree. Try adjusting the action with the bridge saddles and then tweak the truss rod, that'll pull the neck forward or slacken it back, it'll make a big difference to the action.
The neck should have a very slight forward bow adjusted with the truss rod, then you can go to bridge saddles. Firstly you should of course level and crown the frets.

Try to reload the attachments

For me on my 1999-2000 (Corona California) Fender Telecaster I had the neck adjusted so it is pretty much flat when one of the best Luthiers (Bob Dayfield) set the guitar up, he also rectified a couple of faults like finding 4 'loose' frets. I should explain my guitars early life, it spent over a year in a display cubicle next to the door of a shop in Leicester, sealed off from the shop this window was open to the heat and cold, lean't against a Twin Reverb with a poster fixed to the back wall/door saying "Celebrating 50yrs of Fender" now this was a small sealed box so the temperature would have fluctuated wildly from sub zero to probably 50c in full sun. (I know cos it was on my commute and the shop was just the other side of the city centre and at about 2/3 distance from work so I'd stop, have a quick drool, whilst lighting up a 'last before work' cigarette and head off.
Anyway about 4 yrs later I'd had my 84 Japanese built Squier 'Tele' nicked during a 'break in' and because it was an early Japan built Squier (quite collectable nowadays) the insurance company decided that the cost of a Mexican 'Tele' and transferred the claim from just sending me one in a box to allowing the claim to 'Carlsboro Music Centre' which was a chain of 10-12 shops nationwide (and coincidentally the shop I used to stop at) and I tried a couple of these Mexican built ones, the guy in the shop said "Classic Telecaster sound" but to me too 'thin' and twangy' a country style sound. So I had a bit of a browse through the hundreds of Guitars in there and espied a rather forlorn and dusty thing reduced as 'shop soiled' so i picked it up and plugged in......................This was the sound, a real 'blues growler' of a Telecaster, still 'toppy' but with a body to the mids/bass just like my old guitar was. The action was abysmal, way too high but the sound was there. So i nipped up to the bank and found I had £160 in there so withdrew that then went back to the shop, Now they'd reduced the 'shop soiled' guitar too £600 (well £599) but I said "look my claim is £400 and I've got £160 so will you accept £560" and they did. Only trouble was I now couldn't afford a 'gig bag' which I told the bloke his reply was "Oh no sir, this one comes with a 'hardcase'

 

[Cycleops]

Very interesting history @raleighnut but I don't know what it's got to do with truss rod adjustment.

 

[raleighnut]

Very interesting history @raleighnut but I don't know what it's got to do with truss rod adjustment.

Aye, I was gonna do pt2. look at the time of the post, still tired but was gagging for a cuppa.

pt2 to follow

 

[Drago]

Test drove the Meteora at last nights gig. I struggled to hear sod all because of the acoustics (it's a football club) but feedback from the audience was that the bass sounded super smashing lovely.

 

[rogerzilla]

George Harrison's Gretsch Duo Jet had a terrible DIY black paint job. There's an interesting YouTube documentary on how Gretsch made replicas of it, and that's one of the things they had to try to replicate!

 

[Cycleops]

What do you reckon to this guy's? Is that scarf joint going to go on this 2002 Ibanez SRX 300?

 

[Cycleops]

George Harrison's Gretsch Duo Jet had a terrible DIY black paint job. There's an interesting YouTube documentary on how Gretsch made replicas of it, and that's one of the things they had to try to replicate!

Can't be as bad as this rattle can job on a Squire Jazz I've just bought.

 

[MontyVeda]

What do you reckon to this guy's? Is that scarf joint going to go on this 2002 Ibanez SRX 300?

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more detailed pics required. All i can see is a scarf joint with no visible sign that it might fail.
Is it splitting?

 

[Cycleops]

Can't see it's splitting but looks like it's rather open. Haven't bought it yet but I don't think it's worth chancing. There's also some damage which has been covered up by plastic on the bottom of the body.



Shame as apparently they have quite a unique sound.

 

[DRM]

Is it just ingrained dirt in the joint? can you feel a split with a finger nail?

 

[Cycleops]

Don't think there's a split so perhaps okay but I think I'm more worried about what's under that plastic.