I know I m a pain with this but help....

[ex3.8]

i have the sil-spl with trem. as posted lower i am having an E and G buzz. I would like to solve this myself....I played with the truss rod turning clockwise (if you are looking down the neck with your chin on the trem. this seems to pull the neck back and lower the action right ? more buzz right? right. So since the saddle srews seem to be maxed out, i used the allen key to raise the bridge, wich now meens that it is tilted backwards (like a floyd with full spring tension and 008-038 strings) right? The buzz is 90% gone
Soooo is this ok? or should the bridge be flat and there is a way to take the Buzzzz out of this things????????????

Thanks

 

[dfrady]

Hey ex3.8 how's it goin' ?
If i were you i would take my guitar to a Authorized Repair Center and get it over with !!!!! Because if you keep playin' around with the truss rod you're gonna snap the neck. Just look at it like this the price of haveing it Professionaly set up is a lot cheaper than haveing to buy a new guitar because you snapped the neck playin' with the truss rod !!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Luck on what ever you decide to do !!!

 

[Jimi D]

raising the bridge changes the relationship between the bridge break and the neck angle, which could lead to a too high action up on the weedle frets, and require a neck shim... basically, if you're running around trying to figure this out yourself, you had better get a GOOD book on the subject (one of Dan Erlwine's books, for instance) or you're risking making a heck of a mess out of things. There's nothing in guitar set up you can't do yourself, but you have to invest in the learning, and though there may be internet resources out there (try searching Google with the term "guitar set up"), there are far too many things that can go wrong and far too many variables to deal with to get the required knowledge on a newsgroup. For instance, in Erlewine's How to Set Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and Acoustics, he devotes 14 8"x11" pages to setting up a traditional Strat-style tremolo - that's far more info than I'm gonna sit and type here today...

Books are good but getting a relationship started with a good guitar tech is invaluable - it's how I learned... I payed someone to do it for me and grilled them incessantly on how/what they did - eventually, between that and the book, I was able to do it all myself.

 

[ex3.8]

I brought it in today.......

It still has a slight buzz. the tech raised the trem a bit and adjusted the rod. He said that's the best he could do!!!!
Well I will see if i can live with this or not. I cant help but feel a little disapointed about the situation!!!!

 

[kbaim]

Just a thought, but if it only buzzes a little unplugged, but not when played through an amp, I wouldn't worry too much. If thru an amp though...

KEITH

 

[Jimi D]

Re: I brought it in today.......

It still has a slight buzz. the tech raised the trem a bit and adjusted the rod. He said that's the best he could do!!!!
Well I will see if i can live with this or not. I cant help but feel a little disapointed about the situation!!!!

Some good advice: Get a better tech!

If it's the best he could do, the first question out of your mouth should be "Why?", and you should get a full explanation to your satisfaction, or else the job is not done...

Buzzing is always a compromise between how much buzz you can stand, how low you want the action, and how worn are your frets. I have the action on all my EB/MM guitars set very much on the low side, and the "buzz" is minimal to none on all of them, and the necks are very, very close to straight, with only the slightest relief. That being said, the frets are all very clean, and I tweak the truss rod frequently to keep everything in trim... The best advice is still to get a good book and a good tech - you spend over a thousand bucks on a guitar, you might as well invest $30 in a book that will teach you how to maintain it.