Andy Eagle
Fractal Fanatic
Watch the first fret clearance when you fret at the second fret. You should have a tiny gap to see light over the first fret.
Watch the first fret clearance when you fret at the second fret. You should have a tiny gap to see light over the first fret.
This wasnt on my bingo card.
Very, in order to ensure the proper contact point is the fingerboard side edge .
Extremely crucial, I was going to mention it to you but something got in the way of me making a post (likely life). I figured someone else would do it for me so, there ya go.
Thanks! I'm going to have to get a Magnifying glass so I can look at what I'm doing.
If the string is binding in the slot, you need to file the entire length of the slot, not just the headstock side. If you use an actual file instead of a string, you won't have to bear down so hard, so you can widen the slot without changing the height. It might take a bit of practice to get comfortable doing that, though.
Ha! I actually have one of these that I forgot about! I will have to go dig it up.
You can buy LED lights for the headset as an aftermarket product. Check these out:
The one I have already has LED's in it!
Another thought about filing nuts using a guitar string...If the string is binding in the slot, you need to file the entire length of the slot, not just the headstock side. If you use an actual file instead of a string, you won't have to bear down so hard, so you can widen the slot without changing the height. It might take a bit of practice to get comfortable doing that, though.
Awesome - I'm finding it very rewarding to learn to do my own setups and minor luthiering, tho its taking some help, study, good tools, and practice. I've come to believe that some of the "specialness" in a guitar is actually in the setup. I realized this after tinkering with setup on some guitars that I had no previous "bond" with, and there was suddenly some magic appearing in terms of my "connection" with the instrument. Made me look at things a little differently when trying out guitars in store - even if they are well set up by the store staff, my own setup might be able to bring something else out of it since it the most personalized set up there can be - of course I've had newb screwups too where I lost a good feeling from a guitar due to mal-setup and had trouble recovering it - luckily never any irreversible damage to a good guitar (a beater guitar I use for luthiering practice damaged here and there but that's what I have it for).
