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Follow along and learn how to set-up your guitar from start to finish beginning with: Adjusting The String Height, followed by: Adjusting The Truss Rod, and finishing up with: Setting The Intonation. Your strings should be in good condition and the neck free of defects which might limit adjustments of the action such as neck warp or excessively worn and uneven fretwork.
Personal preference comes into play as well as the quality of the fret work in determining how low or high to set the string height. The illustration above shows a measurement of 1/16 (2.5mm) which is fairly low.
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Do you a guide for setting intonation on a Floyed Rose tremalo 2. Editor says:
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You can refer to this guide for setting intonation, the same principles apply. On a floyd Rose youll need to slacken the string to loosen the saddle lock screw and make the saddle adjustment (forward or back). Go string-by-string, and youll minimize retuning during the procedure.
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Measuring Relief
Before making truss-rod adjustments first measure the string relief. Relief is the amount of space between the bottom of the string and the top of the fret. Relief is the bow in the middle of the neck under tension set to compensate for the nature of a strings vibration which expands in the middle of its length in an elliptical pattern when plucked. This is easily observed by simply plucking a string and looking closely at it with a strong light behind it.
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Feeler Gauge Set the gauge of .010 is a good starting point for a medium action.
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Truss Rod Adjustment Tool (usually a hex or Allen key for Fenders, and a small adjustment wrench for Gibsons)
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Most set-neck guitars use a threaded nut for truss-rod adjustment which is located under a plastic cover at the head stock end of the guitar. Bolt on necks usually have a hex nut that is adjusted thru a small opening at the head-stock or neck heel (heel end adjustments may require removal of the neck for adjustment). Make sure you have the correct size tool for the job. Some Luthiers prefer to slacken the strings to make truss-rod adjustments, particularly on vintage instruments. Unless you need to make major adjustments, you can carefully adjust the truss rod under full tension for most newer guitars.
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Do you a guide for setting intonation on a Floyed Rose tremalo 2. Editor says:
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You can refer to this guide for setting intonation, the same principles apply. On a floyd Rose youll need to slacken the string to loosen the saddle lock screw and make the saddle adjustment (forward or back). Go string-by-string, and youll minimize retuning during the procedure.
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Intonation De mystified
The guitar is an imperfect instrument. The mathematical calculations that define where the frets are placed is perfect on paper, but on the actual guitar other factors come into play. Different string gauges are needed, along with intonation adjustments, to have the strings play relatively in tune with each other. The guitar is never really in perfect tune, rather it is balanced to sound as good as possible for chords and playing with other instruments. Buzz Feiten has developed a method to compensate the strings length to provide a hybrid intonation setting. Other companies have developed compensated nuts, and even spanned fretting systems with the intention of solving the intonation problem. This article focuses on setting the intonation on a standard guitar that does not have any special enhancements.
Notice the stair-step pattern the saddles are in. The Fender style bridge (on the left) has more adjustment travel forward and back than the Gibson bridges saddles (on the right). The Gibson style bridge is installed at a slight angle (indicated by the arrows).
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For other scale lengths divide the total scale length by 2 and use this as your anchor point of the 4th string bridge saddle. Check this measurement on the instrument, manufacturers occasionally alter the exact placement of frets and use slight variations on standard scale lengths. What we are measuring is the exact middle point of our scale length.
If the string played at the 12th fret is observed to be flat compared to the 12th fret harmonic then we
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know that the string length is too long, and the string saddle needs to be adjusted forward.
If the 12th fret note is shown to be sharp relative to the 12th fret harmonic, that indicates that the strings actual length is too short, so the string saddle is adjusted back.
The above illustration shows the 12th fret harmonic matching the 12 fret pitch. This string is correctly intonated.
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Do you a guide for setting intonation on a Floyed Rose tremalo 2. Editor says:
July 8, 2012 at 8:14 pm
You can refer to this guide for setting intonation, the same principles apply. On a floyd Rose youll need to slacken the string to loosen the saddle lock screw and make the saddle adjustment (forward or back). Go string-by-string, and youll minimize retuning during the procedure.
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