LUKE - neck probs

[Earplayer]

Hello Folks!

Actually i have a small problem with my LUKE... it isn´t a big thing... but please give me some advice... just to get the information at first hand.

When i bend a note on the high-e-string "the tone dies" - it´s only at the 19.-to 21. fret... and on the high e-string.
I can bend the note a half step - no problem. but when i bend 1 or 1and1/2 step its there... i think the string touches the fret so the tone "stalls"/"dies off"...
I have no fret-buzz and everything else is just great.

I really don´t know - but i think maybe the truss rod needs an adjustment... (its pretty cold now and the humidity changes a little bit inside the house)...?

Thanks a bunch!!!

P.S.
I hope you can follow me (sorry for my bad english).

-Tom.

 

[Colin]

sounds like it is choking the strings and will require a truss rod adjustment.

 

[Mick]

Raise the saddle for the e-string just a little bit ---- gone

 

[Earplayer]

thanks a lot!!!!

i think before i will raise the saddle i will adjust the truss rod... so i´ll try that today... i hope that will eliminate the problem.

@colin clockwise is for tense/stretch?
so i think i have to loosen the tension...?

sorry i am dizzy

 

[robelinda2]

just back off the truss rod slightly, anti clockwise.

 

[Earplayer]

thanx robelinda2!

 

[Lou]

Check your relief. If your neck relief is good, then raise the action.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Did it work? I had a dead spot once and it was a high fret. A small fret dress sorted it out.