A friend of mine handed me his 2006 tobacco burst Axis about a month ago to try out. He had hardly played it. You couldn't tell that it had been out of the case. It was love at first strum. We traded dollars for hardware and I am now one of the family!
Before I turn too many screws, I thought I better get some perspective.
My problems began with the fine tuning screw for the B string being nearly bottomed out. I loosened the nut locks, set all of the fine tuners to about center, tuned the guitar and retightened the locks. The B and high E strings twang buzzed badly on all frets including open. I screwed the B and high E strings fine tuners back in and the problem went away.
That got me looking more carefully at the whole setup picture starting with the Floyd. My Floyd sits rocked back a little bit resting on the body. My D-Tuna angles toward the body and might hit the body if the fine tuner were screwed all the way in. The Floyd can be leveled with the body using the tremolo arm and that puts it in a float position with a little less than 1/16” gap between it and the body face. Is this correct for the Axis? If not, how is this corrected. AND... is this where I should start?
I then fretted the low E string @ frets 2 and 12. The string lays basically flat on the fret board. There might be a thousandth between the two if anything. Same with high E.
I am very close to dropping this off in San Louis Obisbo but would prefer to become proficient with this on my own…. Thank you all in advance for any help or advice.
Before I turn too many screws, I thought I better get some perspective.
My problems began with the fine tuning screw for the B string being nearly bottomed out. I loosened the nut locks, set all of the fine tuners to about center, tuned the guitar and retightened the locks. The B and high E strings twang buzzed badly on all frets including open. I screwed the B and high E strings fine tuners back in and the problem went away.
That got me looking more carefully at the whole setup picture starting with the Floyd. My Floyd sits rocked back a little bit resting on the body. My D-Tuna angles toward the body and might hit the body if the fine tuner were screwed all the way in. The Floyd can be leveled with the body using the tremolo arm and that puts it in a float position with a little less than 1/16” gap between it and the body face. Is this correct for the Axis? If not, how is this corrected. AND... is this where I should start?
I then fretted the low E string @ frets 2 and 12. The string lays basically flat on the fret board. There might be a thousandth between the two if anything. Same with high E.
I am very close to dropping this off in San Louis Obisbo but would prefer to become proficient with this on my own…. Thank you all in advance for any help or advice.
