String clearance from rosewood at the nut

[Jeff F]

New 2007 Fender Standard Jazz. First bass I've owned. My goal is to get the action the same on all the frets, a straight neck. The bass I borrowed to start learning on was setup this way, almost no bend in neck, and was a dream to play, real nice on the fingers.

When I straightened the neck and then lowered the bridges to have about the same string height at the 17th fret as the 1st fret it buzzed like crazy. I had to back off the neck adjustment to put back more bend in the neck to stop the buzz. Now I am almost right back where I started. The only thing I can figure is the string grooves are cut too low in the nut. Is there a measurment for this string height at the nut? I held the strings down at the 2nd fret and can tap and hear and see very minimum clearance on the first fret.

Am I trying to get the action too low in the middle of neck?

Thanks

[Scott01]

I have the same problem with my MIM jazz, although its like a '94 model or something. The nut does seem to feel really low on mine too.

I just got so fed up with the fret buzz (which is still apparent on some strings) that I now just play with high fingerboard action.

The sucky part is, last bass guitar I had setup by my local store did a far worse job than I did myself at setting it up - so I cant even use the "take it to a pro" option.

[amistybleu]

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/I-1811.html

Happy reading

[Jeff F]

Thanks Amistyblue. I will check it out