Action strings 1.5
His standard action height is 1/16", as a midway starting point to adjust from. He also tapped in one fret that was slightly pulled out.
He measures almost everything, but relief he sets by eye, siting down the neck, and I haven't measured since so I don't know how it's set, but it's totally workable. My theory is that I must have felt an unexpected resistance that freaked me out enough to stop, long before it was actually in the right ballpark.Īs I've been saying, I'm not that experienced with truss rod adjustments. I'm quite sure I didn't loosen it from there, why would I? When it was still bowed, I tightened it a couple times more, until I thought it felt like I shouldn't do that any more. The last thing I'd done was to take the adjuster nut off completely, lube it and tighten it back up. However, when he went to adjust it, he said the truss rod was nearly all the way LOOSE!
He took a look and said the neck was really bowed a lot, which is what I thought. I found a well-respected luthier not too from me that I'd never tried, gave him a call on the off chance he'd see me today, and it worked out. I'll take another look later, but for now I need some more sleep if I can.) (I wrote this last night, apparently forgot to send it. Which I knew, but I thought I'd learn something, and get further than this. Which wasn't good.Ĭlearly don't know what I'm doing. And having taken the truss adjuster completely off to lube it I can't just go back to how it was. Logic and measurements aside, I'm pretty sure I've things worse, not better, and they were bad to start with. Which I tried to do but can't any further. If I'm visualizing the geometry right (probably not), that points to the neck being excessively concave, meaning the truss rod needs to be tightened. Turns out that taking the saddles down much at all caused massive fretting out on the higher frets, strings hitting the last fret or ones a bit before there. I figured I'd take the relief that I couldn't get as low as I thought I wanted as a given, and just lower the bridge saddles to get the action more reasonable.