Roubster
Well-known member
So I have been basically ripping my Silhouette apart last night and tonight.
First off, the damn weather made the Silo buzz MAINLY on the 9th fret, so I was thinking of how to fix it, and I got some strange idea that SHIMMING it would fix it.
Mind you I have NEVER done any shimming before and only read about it on THIS awesome forum of course. So I took the neck off of the Silo, which I have never really done, and did not know wether there is a right way or wrong way to do it.
Anyway, I took that off and put in a pick the thinness (width/ thicknes/ WHATEVER) of a credit card. So that's where I became paranoid not knowing how the neck is going to go back in the pocket and wether I'm gonna break the neck doing the process or whatever.
Well it went in just fine and all, and when that was done it felt weird already having the whole neck tilting backwards. Of course I had to raise the saddles like CRAZY in order to be able to play a note, but it looked funny already so high.
So as I was setting it up and got to the finish line, there was NO difference in action or ANYTHING playability wise, except I did notice the tone was a little bit thinner VERY SLIGHTLY, and of course the saddles were incredibly high and such.
So basically I found out that doing this was COMPLETELY pointless and a waste of time, so couple of hours back tonight, I decided to take that stupid pick out and leave it as it was before.
I took that crap out and did an AMAZING set up. I did EVERYTHING on it, from intonation, GOOD action, good relief, and adjustment of the springs in the rem cavity. This was by far the most succesfull set up I have ever done and also RECIEVED. There almost NO buzzing now on the fretboard, and the action is a tiny bit over 1/16 on low E and a bit under 1/16 on high E. The trem works very smooth now since there isnt SO much tension on the claw, and everything is PEACHY
.
So this was my experience, and I thought I had to share it RIGHT after I finished doing this couple hours ago, because I am just so damn excited like a little kid on his B-day .
First off, the damn weather made the Silo buzz MAINLY on the 9th fret, so I was thinking of how to fix it, and I got some strange idea that SHIMMING it would fix it.
Mind you I have NEVER done any shimming before and only read about it on THIS awesome forum of course. So I took the neck off of the Silo, which I have never really done, and did not know wether there is a right way or wrong way to do it.
Anyway, I took that off and put in a pick the thinness (width/ thicknes/ WHATEVER) of a credit card. So that's where I became paranoid not knowing how the neck is going to go back in the pocket and wether I'm gonna break the neck doing the process or whatever.
Well it went in just fine and all, and when that was done it felt weird already having the whole neck tilting backwards. Of course I had to raise the saddles like CRAZY in order to be able to play a note, but it looked funny already so high.
So as I was setting it up and got to the finish line, there was NO difference in action or ANYTHING playability wise, except I did notice the tone was a little bit thinner VERY SLIGHTLY, and of course the saddles were incredibly high and such.
So basically I found out that doing this was COMPLETELY pointless and a waste of time, so couple of hours back tonight, I decided to take that stupid pick out and leave it as it was before.
I took that crap out and did an AMAZING set up. I did EVERYTHING on it, from intonation, GOOD action, good relief, and adjustment of the springs in the rem cavity. This was by far the most succesfull set up I have ever done and also RECIEVED. There almost NO buzzing now on the fretboard, and the action is a tiny bit over 1/16 on low E and a bit under 1/16 on high E. The trem works very smooth now since there isnt SO much tension on the claw, and everything is PEACHY
.So this was my experience, and I thought I had to share it RIGHT after I finished doing this couple hours ago, because I am just so damn excited like a little kid on his B-day
.
