So I Got My Jp6!+ question

[diasdelphx]

Thanks Nick and Pete!! Easily the best guitar ive ever seen/played/heard...just wow...i dont have a camera right now, but ill get it back soon, then pics!! But i do have one question, how exactly do I adjust my action? Its set up great, i just like it a teeny bit lower

 

[petruccirocks02]

You can put an allen wrench (3mm) in the trussrod hole and turn it slightly to the right. By slightly, I mean very very little.

-Phil

 

[diasdelphx]

so...like if its in my lap and im looking down at the guitar, do i move the wheel up or downwards, as in closer to me or further from me?

 

[greenwizard]

Further from you.
If you have the guitar in normal playing position, you turn it towards the ground.
If you are looking at it from the bridge side (looking toward the neck), then you turn it clockwise.

 

[petruccirocks02]

Further from you.
If you have the guitar in normal playing position, you turn it towards the ground.
If you are looking at it from the bridge side (looking toward the neck), then you turn it clockwise.

Well said.

-Phil

 

[emkey]

all EBMM's are so easy to adjust! It's the best solution ever! Now I really can't imagine other guitar then Ernie Ball Music Man!

 

[Phazer]

do you have re-intonate after this operation??

 

[emkey]

All adjustments influence another adjustments. So yeah, you'll probably have to re-intonate your guitar, but it's a piece of cake. EBMM JP's are so easy to set! If you make it once, you'll be delighted how easy that is! Someone lately said that "setting up EBMM is almost the same fun as playing it". You just have to follow the steps in proper way. All has been described in FAQ section on the main page of Ernie Ball.

best-
Mike

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

You're welcome, enjoy the guitar!

Small turns (1/8 turn or less) are generally all that is needed to fine-tune the neck & action to your liking.

 

[Lou]

Truss rod is not the place to be setting action. Only adjust the truss rod if you need more/less neck relief. If the neck is OK, then you should lower/raise the bridge saddles.

 

[www.lamusic.ca]

Truss rod is not the place to be setting action. Only adjust the truss rod if you need more/less neck relief. If the neck is OK, then you should lower/raise the bridge saddles.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Adjusting the truss rod to change action is a little backwards...

 

[petruccirocks02]

Truss rod is not the place to be setting action. Only adjust the truss rod if you need more/less neck relief. If the neck is OK, then you should lower/raise the bridge saddles.

Taken directly from the FAQ:
A: The best and easiest way to adjust your action is to use the truss rod. To lower your action, turn the wheel clockwise. To raise your action, particularly if you have fret buzz, turn the wheel counter clockwise. It is always a good idea to make just one or two turns at a time, then play it and see if it needs more adjustment. It normally doesn't take many turns of the wheel to notice a difference.

A "turn" as defined here is inserting an adjustment tool and moving a spoke of the wheel from one side of the opening at the body at the neck to the other side.

-Phil

 

[greenwizard]

Hmmm...
I've only ever adjusted the truss rod when I feel there is too much/too little relief in the neck, and I've never adjusted it a full turn. Is this unusual. And when I do, I've rarely had to re-intonate, just retune.
Maybe that's just me.

 

[Johnny Guitar]

what's the difference between neck relief and action?

 

[Lou]

Yeah, that FAQ is not right IMO. Yes, optimum neck relief WILL effect action, BUT you should make sure the relief is right for you THEN adjust action at the bridge. To only rely on the truss rod for action is not the best way to go about it.

 

[greenwizard]

what's the difference between neck relief and action?

Relief has to do with curvature in the neck, while action is just the height of the strings off the fretboard.
Imagine your guitar is a bow (as in an archery bow). If you bent the sides of the bow back, then the string would move closer to the wood. That would be the equivalent of using the truss rod to change the relief and adjust the action.
Instead of doing that, you could untie the string on one end of the bow, and retie it just a little bit further from the end. Again you would be moving the string closer to the wooden part of the bow. That's roughly equivalent to lowering the saddles to adjust action.
To be honest, I've never had to adjust the action on my JP. I can't imagine it being any lower without buzzing. Maybe if I changed string gauges.
Anyway, I hope that helps,
greenwizard

 

[Johnny Guitar]

thanks for clearing that up!