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Re: Bolt on neck problems/ HELP

5/6/2003 6:39 PM
Soapbarstrat	Re: Bolt on neck problems/ HELP What you should do next, is tell us what the string height is at the 12th fret and at the last fret(at the body), with the strings capo'ed at the first fret. (measure from the fret tops to the string bottoms.) You should also get the neck as straight as possible for this reading, with a hair of relief instead of a hair of back-bow. I suspect the neck is in need of a good fret-board reshaping and refretting, if you want it to play great with low action. Any time I buy a "parts neck", I end up reshaping the fret-board with my stew-mac neck-jig and get a kick out of making a 50 dollar neck play like a neck on a 2,500 dollar guitar. I might not be able to look back here soon enough to give you more help, but with the string height info, you should be able to get more detailed advice from others. All I can add right now, is that if your strings are 1/16" high at the 12th fret on up, and you're still getting buzzing, I think you have a fret-board hump and/or some uneven frets. On my guitars, the high E is a hair higher than 1/32" at the 12th fret. the low E is a hair over 3/64". It used to be a hair lower, but I like playing rhythm more now and don't even want to have the lowest possible action, although It's very close to being the lowest possible. Good Luck

5/6/2003 6:39 PM

Soapbarstrat

Re: Bolt on neck problems/ HELP

What you should do next, is tell us what the string height is at the 12th fret and at the last fret(at the body), with the strings capo'ed at the first fret. (measure from the fret tops to the string bottoms.)
You should also get the neck as straight as possible for this reading, with a hair of relief instead of a hair of back-bow.
I suspect the neck is in need of a good fret-board reshaping and refretting, if you want it to play great with low action.
Any time I buy a "parts neck", I end up reshaping the fret-board with my stew-mac neck-jig and get a kick out of making a 50 dollar neck play like a neck on a 2,500 dollar guitar.

I might not be able to look back here soon enough to give you more help, but with the string height info, you should be able to get more detailed advice from others.

All I can add right now, is that if your strings are 1/16" high at the 12th fret on up, and you're still getting buzzing, I think you have a fret-board hump and/or some uneven frets.

On my guitars, the high E is a hair higher than 1/32" at the 12th fret. the low E is a hair over 3/64". It used to be a hair lower, but I like playing rhythm more now and don't even want to have the lowest possible action, although It's very close to being the lowest possible.

Good Luck