Manny_Silvers
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Hi there. I couldn't for the life of me remember my password for this forum and apparently made my account so long ago that it's registered to my old email address I don't have access to anymore, so I had to make a new account...anyways:
I do all of my own set-up work on my basses. Nothing fancy like fretwork or serious wood work, just basic neck cleaning, truss rod, intonation, and action adjustments along with electrical work. For years now I've struggled to make my Stingray feel as nice as I'd like it to, mainly to have it have nice action without a ton of buzzing. It hasn't been my #1 bass for awhile so I've just sort of dealt with it, but this weekend I was working on it and getting really frustrated. I figured it must need some legitimate fret/neck work I'm not capable of (it still might) and I'd just have to bring it to a luthier to check it out.
I then had a random flashback to years ago when I was young and stupid and for some reason took the neck off my Stingray just out of curiosity. I remember there being what seemed like a small piece of sandpaper between the neck and the body, thinking to myself "Hmm that's weird" and disposing of it.
So today I did some online reading to realize that was a shim to adjust the neck joint angle. I had some fine (P220) sandpaper lying around, so I cut a little square of that, folded it in half (it seemed too thin to do anything without it being folded, could be wrong), and placed it between the body and neck at the heel, and I did find it helped a lot! That said, I'm not super confident the arbitrary piece of sandpaper I put there is the right thickness for this use, and I'm wondering if anyone could advise on this issue.
TL;DR years ago without realizing what I was doing I removed a shim from the neck joint of my Stingray. Wondering if anyone has info/advice on what to place there to minimize buzz with low action.
Thanks!
I do all of my own set-up work on my basses. Nothing fancy like fretwork or serious wood work, just basic neck cleaning, truss rod, intonation, and action adjustments along with electrical work. For years now I've struggled to make my Stingray feel as nice as I'd like it to, mainly to have it have nice action without a ton of buzzing. It hasn't been my #1 bass for awhile so I've just sort of dealt with it, but this weekend I was working on it and getting really frustrated. I figured it must need some legitimate fret/neck work I'm not capable of (it still might) and I'd just have to bring it to a luthier to check it out.
I then had a random flashback to years ago when I was young and stupid and for some reason took the neck off my Stingray just out of curiosity. I remember there being what seemed like a small piece of sandpaper between the neck and the body, thinking to myself "Hmm that's weird" and disposing of it.
So today I did some online reading to realize that was a shim to adjust the neck joint angle. I had some fine (P220) sandpaper lying around, so I cut a little square of that, folded it in half (it seemed too thin to do anything without it being folded, could be wrong), and placed it between the body and neck at the heel, and I did find it helped a lot! That said, I'm not super confident the arbitrary piece of sandpaper I put there is the right thickness for this use, and I'm wondering if anyone could advise on this issue.
TL;DR years ago without realizing what I was doing I removed a shim from the neck joint of my Stingray. Wondering if anyone has info/advice on what to place there to minimize buzz with low action.
Thanks!