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thawk819

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Hey my fellow Kaizen owners. I'm having a beast of a time intonating my Kaizen 6. I ended up not needing to make any truss adjustments; I got used to the really flat, minimal relief feel, and find myself really liking it. However, I notice that if the open strings are tuned to pitch, the 12th fret notes (and pretty much every other note along the neck) are a little flat. I broke out the trusty 2mm allen wrench and it barely takes a quarter to half, clockwise turn to get the 12th fret notes right on pitch, but then the open string notes are a little sharp. So up to the Steinbergers to tune down slightly, and with the open strings back in tune, all the fretted notes are a little flat again.

After a few minutes of this back and forth I figure I must be missing something. I've never had this much trouble getting a guitar to intonate. Did any of you experience this and if so, how did you fix it?
 
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