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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?
 

thawk819

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Isn't there an issue with the nut placement on these?
Google searching that seems to yield mixed results and some heated forum debates, and nothing official from EBMM. This is the only place I know there are some actual owners who have given me solid advice. I’m hoping there’s just something I’m missing about intonating a multi scale guitar.
 
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