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03-12-2013, 09:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | | String Action Problem
Just got a bass online used and i love it but one thing is killing me.
i have adjusted everything on the bass and with the saddles at their lowest position, the action is too high. Not talking a hair or so but quite alot. |
03-12-2013, 09:24 AM
|  | Fingers on Four Fretless Strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY & MA | | | Sounds like the neck relief is off. Neck relief is a term used to measure the bend, or bow of the neck. There are good stickies in the beginning of this section to help you along. Are you familiar with doing an instrument set up? |
03-12-2013, 09:29 AM
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03-12-2013, 09:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Palm Coast, FL | | | Shim only if the action is still too high after adjusting the neck relief
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03-12-2013, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Slowgypsy Sounds like the neck relief is off. Neck relief is a term used to measure the bend, or bow of the neck. There are good stickies in the beginning of this section to help you along. Are you familiar with doing an instrument set up? | yes, i do all my own setups. Never had this problem before. |
03-12-2013, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | Does it have a high-mass bridge like a BadAss, Gotoh, or Hipshot?
If so, shim...
Normally a 1/2" long shim, running the width of the pocket, placed at the rear of the pocket, will resolve issues like that.
A business card or other card stock should be thick enough.
All the best, Bob
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03-12-2013, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobster Does it have a high-mass bridge like a BadAss, Gotoh, or Hipshot?
If so, shim...
Normally a 1/2" long shim, running the width of the pocket, placed at the rear of the pocket, will resolve issues like that.
A business card or other card stock should be thick enough.
All the best, Bob | Yes it had a no name high mass bridge.
Will that honestly fix an issue with something so slim? |
03-12-2013, 11:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Eugene | | | I had to do two business cards as a shim recently and now the saddles are set pretty high to get low action. It is amazing what a little shimming can do. |
03-12-2013, 11:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by shawshank72 Yes it had a no name high mass bridge.
Will that honestly fix an issue with something so slim? | You don't shim the entire pocket, just a portion closest to the bridge. This adds a slight angle to the neck, which lowers the strings toward the body.
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03-12-2013, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ddnidd1 You don't shim the entire pocket, just a portion closest to the bridge. This adds a slight angle to the neck, which lowers the strings toward the body. | thank you,
worked like a charm.
still find it weird thats all it took.
thanks all for helping |
03-12-2013, 11:56 AM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | Understanding the development of height by adding angle will help you with this. |
03-12-2013, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | | does this mean that if i put a normal sized bridge on i would have to take out the shim? |
03-12-2013, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Palm Coast, FL | | | Possibly. If raising the saddles doesn't give you enough..
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