Hi Sbatten
I agree with Ceri,Stratele,and Rob Schwarz,the first job to do is a setup by a experienced luthier,who is used to do that job on electric guitars,of any brands,but you can also have good informations in Dan ERLEWINE's book,Guitar Player Repair Guide(Backbeat Books Editor)its the BIBLE of guitar player D.I.Y.,but if you have no knowledges about checking a guitar ,go and see a real professional guy ,it avoid to spent money for a common and simple problem for an good luthier.When it will be OK, let us know.

First off, thank you all very much for your replies! Ceri, I did a small adjustment to the two bridge screws first(probably making you cringe reading this, sorry) but only because I didn't find any bowing in the neck. Then I ever so slightly, a quarter turn on each screw, loosened the bridge screws. I only did it this way because I didn't see any bow in the neck, and when I was fretting the strings they weren't buzzing hardly at all close to the nut, and were worse closer to the pickups. After my slight adjustments the buzzing is about 95% gone! There is a barely noticeable buzz only on occasion so I'm going to keep playing and see if the guitar likes this adjustment or if it slips into something else. I have to buy some tools though for measuring and adjusting because I dont want to idly tinker as that is just foolish. Thank you all again for your help!

sbatten

Sure if you raise action you won't have any buzz . But you like this higher action ?

You tell you don't see any bow in the neck . This is your problem of buzz

A neck should always have a bow , If not ; string will buzz.

But how do you check the neck bow ?

www.fender.com/support/articles/stratoc ... etup-guide

That's correct. There is only the very slightest bow barely even noticeable where the neck bends a little to the back of the guitar. So it goes to the curved side of the neck I guess.
I don't mind the action as It's not raised very high to be honest.

D <--- this side if the neck. a wonderful diagram for you!

Hi sbatten: a little bit of frontbow - good. A little bit of backbow - bad. Backbow causes buzzing along the neck.

Haha - it's a great diagram!

As predicted, backbow is what you have.

And I modestly award myself a night out with KT Tunstall for correctly diagnosing the cause of your buzz problem without ever once setting eyes on your guitar (see my last post).

Now what you need to do is detune the guitar, slacken the trussrod a quarter turn anticlockwise, retune, perhaps wait an hour or two for the neck to settle, and then try out your relief using the steel rule method I described on the previous page. If you now have the correct relief: bingo. If not, detune, slacken the rod another eighth of a turn and retune. Keep going, an eighth of a turn at a time, till the correct slight frontbow and relief measurement are achieved.

Now you should have no more buzz and you can lower your saddles to the desired action. Then reintonate the instrument, because all of this will definitely throw the intonation out.

And remember to just check it all again the next day, because necks can sometimes move a bit overnight after trussrod adjustments.

You're getting there! A buzz-free guitar awaits...

Good luck - C

PS: oh, and fire that tech.

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This is strange, but my deluxe powerhouse was driving me nuts with fret buzz. After I tried everything several times, I found out it was the fault of the barrel string trees. I little oil on the rollers and it solved the problem.

Was not fret buzzing , it was a buzz.

You said you try everything ???, if you do some tune up you'll see the buzz is not coming from the frets.