Straight Neck

[Emanuel Apascaritei]

I don't expect it to ever have any commercial value, so as soon as I have something in a usable form,
I will probably release it as "freeware". Send me a mail message (so I don't forget), and I will send you a copy.

It still has some rough edges, like the bottom edge of the drawing. It has those steps in it (aliasing).
I have a "blueprint" version of the neck that's about finished that looks really nice.
If there's enough interest, I may make a limited feature version, which can be ready a lot sooner.

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PM sent. Thank you so much!

 

[megafiddle]

You're quite welcome. I appreciate the interest.
In the mean time, if you have any setup you would like to see, I will try to post the output.
For anyone else also.
It could use some actual testing.

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[Emanuel Apascaritei]

Great!

My bass is setted more or less to:

Action at 24th fret on the B string: 0.063 inches
Relief at 8th fret on the B string: 0.0079 inches.

I hope the conversion between mm and inches is correct, anyway in mm would be:

Action at 24th fret on the B string: 1.6 mm
Relief at 8th fret on the B string: 0.2mm aprox.

Thanks!

 

[megafiddle]

Which two frets are you pressing the string down to when setting relief?

Also what is scale length?

And if you can measure it, what is distance from nut to neck heel, approximately?
If you look at the other drawings, this is right around the 14th fret on that particular
neck.

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[Lownote38]

I set up all my basses with a perfectly straight neck and low strings. I play with a fairly soft touch, and play right near the bridge. The nice thing about it, is if I dig in, I do get some buzz, but it just gives it a bit of an aggressive tone. A luthier I used recently told me it was "impossible" to have a straight neck without buzz. I got the bass back and the action was about 3/4 of an inch high. I had to remove the neck & re-do my setup. Worst of all, he charged me for the setup as part of the fret leveling.

Now that sucks! 3/4 of an inch??? That's unacceptable! I would have refused to pay for a set up that bad!

 

[bnolsen]

It seems to be a nice balancing act. you need just enough relief to allow those low strings room to vibrate. Otherwise the action wil have to be set too high to compensate.

When measuring the relief or tuning up to check the intonation it really should be done in playing position. last setup i did was using a high workbench. I was able to keep the strap on while adjusting and just drop it into playing position to tune and check.

 

[Emanuel Apascaritei]

Which two frets are you pressing the string down to when setting relief?

Also what is scale length?

And if you can measure it, what is distance from nut to neck heel, approximately?
If you look at the other drawings, this is right around the 14th fret on that particular
neck.

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I press first and last fret

34" scale

Neck heel between 17th and 18th, but more on the 17th side


Hope that helps,
Thanks

 

[megafiddle]

Emibass - I think I have it right. This first uses 0.000 nut height, same height as a zero nut would be.

This is the same except with 0.005 nut height. Nut sluts are typically a little high,
especially as they come from the factory. It's hard to measure though.

It also has a maple fretboard and nickel frets and string (still needs the highlight though).

And this is the relief:

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[Emanuel Apascaritei]

Thanks megafiddle, that looks spot on! Great app!