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Post subject: Signs a Strat needs a neck adjustment?
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:41 pm
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Would those signs include either a slight raise in the action or would it take something much more major such as the neck taking its own little shape? With the weather changing I'm starting to wonder if my Strat needs a neck adjustment. :shock:


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:25 pm
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I take it you're getting a lot of buzzing where you didn't use to on your neck. If you are, don't raise the action, it will only make the guitar harder to play. You may need to change the neck angle and/or the neck relief.
I know that I've seen - somewhere on the Fender site - a set of suggested neck/string height settings. It's easy to make adjustments. Go ahead, play!

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:29 pm
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Todd Montgomery wrote:
I take it you're getting a lot of buzzing where you didn't use to on your neck. If you are, don't raise the action, it will only make the guitar harder to play. You may need to change the neck angle and/or the neck relief.
I know that I've seen - somewhere on the Fender site - a set of suggested neck/string height settings. It's easy to make adjustments. Go ahead, play!

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Not getting any fret buzz, just the action seems a bit higher than normal and its a tad bit harder to play. Or maybe its just me. :?


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It could be the neck relief gone a bit askew but i doubt it. Neck relief is usualy partnered with intonation problems and they take more than just a couple of weeks of cold wet weather to unsettle em. You dont store em by the heating radiator do you.

Its more likely a difference in strings after a re-string or the trem raised a bit.

Put a capo on the first fret and hold the high E at the 15th fret, there should be a paper thin gap between the top of the 8th fret and the bottom of the string.

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It could be the neck relief gone a bit askew but i doubt it. Neck relief is usualy partnered with intonation problems and they take more than just a couple of weeks of cold wet weather to unsettle em. You dont store em by the heating radiator do you.

Its more likely a difference in strings after a re-string or the trem raised a bit.

Put a capo on the first fret and hold the high E at the 15th fret, there should be a paper thin gap between the top of the 8th fret and the bottom of the string.


Never. I always keep my Strat and other guitars in their cases by the wall unit in the basement, which is nowhere near an air conditioning source.


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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:06 pm
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Guitars seem to settle in (especially when new, of course) and your strat might just be settling into it's comfort (?) position.
Guitars sometimes need to be adjusted - kinda like engines. Your guitar needs a "tune-up".
Wood and metal (trussrod/string/etc.) age/adjust/settle in at different rates. Even a small difference makes a noticable difference over time.

PS it's not dank in your basement, is it?

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:31 pm
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Fender factory spec set string height at 4/64 (1/16) at 17th. fret
Relief at 7th fret .012
Nut action .020 the nut action is measured from the bottom of string to top of first fret.
Bridge height 3/32 - 1/8
The pickup up height when the string is pressed at the last fret 1/8 bass side 3/32 treble side.
Got this from my specs sheet for Amer Std. Vintage and SRV

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:45 pm
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Todd Montgomery wrote:
Guitars seem to settle in (especially when new, of course) and your strat might just be settling into it's comfort (?) position.
Guitars sometimes need to be adjusted - kinda like engines. Your guitar needs a "tune-up".
Wood and metal (trussrod/string/etc.) age/adjust/settle in at different rates. Even a small difference makes a noticable difference over time.

PS it's not dank in your basement, is it?

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Can't say it is dank at all in the basement here. The basement is practically my second room. :roll:


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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:24 pm
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We keep our HVAC set at 40%RH at 74 degress in both zones and it runs either the heat or air which ever is need as well as the humidfier or dehumidifer. Its Amazing what you can do with these fancy new comfort systems. Costly to put in but will save in the long run and besides that the old one gave out at 20 years and had no choice :shock:

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