reco46
01-31-2008, 03:07 PM
Last weekend I re-strung my sons Jackson Dinky with floyd rose system. I wanted to lubricate the bridge so I took off all the strings at once.
Now I've watched several YouTube videos on how to change strings and it"s confusing - some say never take all strings off at once unless really necessary due to the extra long re-set up time required to set string/spring tension and a couple others show guys removing all strings at once.
As well I lowered the bridge and in a moment of dumbness, I thought I would adjust truss rod(I know stupid move) and because the neck looked like it sloped slightly into the body I placed a small shim to raise the back part of the neck pocket.My main goal was to lower the action a bit.
Anyway that seemed to help the neck, but after messing around with the truss rod (very small adjustment) something didnt seem right so I adjusted it back to its original position. It took me about 2 hours to re-float the bridge level and get the tension equal. I blocked the bridge like people say, but every time I re-tuned the strings, by the time I got to the high E the rest of the strings had gone way out of tune, eventually it worked out.
The problem now seems to be a tuning issue, when you tune the guitar with a tuner exactly, then strum say open chords they sound out of tune. So I tune to the chord but then use the tuner some strings are out. I think the changes I made through out the intonation, I dont know, I havent actually checked it yet, would raising the bridge a little bit help. I set my own intonation on fixed brdiges before but that was turn the screw type, it appears alot harder using the allen key method to move the saddles - should I attempt this? before surrendering to a pro set up? I want to feel like I can do the work myself, I enjoy it.
The other thing my son thinks might be my unfamilarity with a guitar with jumbo frets. I cants seem to use the light touch - I still feel I have to play string right to the fret board, this causes the string to go sharp YUK!
Help! My son is playing a gig saturday and I dont want to feel like I screwed up his axe,
Now I've watched several YouTube videos on how to change strings and it"s confusing - some say never take all strings off at once unless really necessary due to the extra long re-set up time required to set string/spring tension and a couple others show guys removing all strings at once.
As well I lowered the bridge and in a moment of dumbness, I thought I would adjust truss rod(I know stupid move) and because the neck looked like it sloped slightly into the body I placed a small shim to raise the back part of the neck pocket.My main goal was to lower the action a bit.
Anyway that seemed to help the neck, but after messing around with the truss rod (very small adjustment) something didnt seem right so I adjusted it back to its original position. It took me about 2 hours to re-float the bridge level and get the tension equal. I blocked the bridge like people say, but every time I re-tuned the strings, by the time I got to the high E the rest of the strings had gone way out of tune, eventually it worked out.
The problem now seems to be a tuning issue, when you tune the guitar with a tuner exactly, then strum say open chords they sound out of tune. So I tune to the chord but then use the tuner some strings are out. I think the changes I made through out the intonation, I dont know, I havent actually checked it yet, would raising the bridge a little bit help. I set my own intonation on fixed brdiges before but that was turn the screw type, it appears alot harder using the allen key method to move the saddles - should I attempt this? before surrendering to a pro set up? I want to feel like I can do the work myself, I enjoy it.
The other thing my son thinks might be my unfamilarity with a guitar with jumbo frets. I cants seem to use the light touch - I still feel I have to play string right to the fret board, this causes the string to go sharp YUK!
Help! My son is playing a gig saturday and I dont want to feel like I screwed up his axe,