Help! is that normal ?

[tristan klein]

hey all !

I went to my tech to fix a little string buzz and the first thing he told me was " your neck does not look to be in place...take a look at the strings against the pickups"...and that's true. it looks like something is not really in place.

but the guitar sounds awesome, plays fantastic and most of all, I spent time on the internet to find pics of HSS luke's and it looks like many of it are made the same way.

its that a design specification due to the dimarzio larger than EMG ?

I'm not complaining. all I ask is a couple of guys telling me " yes, my guitar is just like this and it's perfect to me..."

I don't think I would be able to let this particular guitar go back to the factory or anything else. when a guitar sounds and plays so good, all you want is keeping it !!!

 

[dibart77]

Looks to me like the neck needs an alignment tweak. if your tech is competent he should have been able to EASILY fix this and should have known immediately what the fix is. Someone (DrKev?) posted a video showing how to do this but I can't locate it. Anybody smarter than me know where this video is?

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[ozzyrules]

Try this:

 

[banjoplayer]

a look on the fretboard would be good to see if the dots are in the middle of the 3rd and 4th string or if the neck has shifted

This is the vid you'll need in case it is

 

[banjoplayer]

damn ozzy you were quicker

 

[tristan klein]

Hey thanks for the quick and excellent replies !!!
We will do it tommorow!!!

I'll let you know ho it works !!!

 

[DrKev]

 

[dibart77]

AH! I knew it was DrKev. YouTube is f'ed up. I searched for "Music Man Neck Alignment DrKev" and it gave me Drew's videos and a bunch of others, but not these. You'd think even though Music Man is not in the title, the "Neck Alignment DrKev" would have matched to "Fixing String Alignment on a Bolt-On Neck Guitar - DrKevGuitar.com".

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[ozzyrules]

damn ozzy you were quicker

Ha, just lucky.

 

[mikeller]

Tristan - Just as an FYI, I just checked my L3 (bodhi blue, SSH) and the strings center perfectly with the pickup pole pieces.

As the others have said, likely a quick and easily neck alignment tweak should fix

 

[Razzle]

Hmmmmm... Not to dispute, sure seems to me that screw holes are fixed and tight and and don't allow enough slack to adjust the misalignment out.

 

[DrKev]

See video. There is enough movement of the screws within in the holes. Think of it as the headstock that gets displaced and remember that the headstock is at the end of a long arm. A very small motion at the neck/body joint = larger motion at the end of the arm. It's more than enough. Common thing with most bolt-on neck guitars, but most people don't notice and when the they do they usually wonder why the pickups are poorly centered under the strings or assume that the bridge is in the wrong place.