This guitar had quite noticeable fret buzz around the 9th fret. The owner thought it might need some fret levelling.
I spotted that the action was very low for an acoustic guitar, but also that there was a marked S shape in the neck, with the dip being between the 5th fret and the neck/body joint. Truss rod adjustments improved the neck relief considerably, but lowered the action even more. I temporarily shimmed the saddle, to raise the action and then confirmed that the fret buzz was fixed. At this point the saddle was sitting on far too many shims, so after consulting with the owner, I ordered a new saddle, which I then shaved to the correct height for a reasonable action with no fret buzz. Problem solved.
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A customer brought a Harley Benton acoustic guitar for setup. He hadn't played much for a few years, but his son had just started to learn guitar and he wanted to be able to strum along with the youngster. He wanted a bit of ease-of-use out of the Harley Benton. I gave the truss rod a tweak, shaved down the saddle and took some material out of the nut slots to give a comfortable playing action.
A customer contacted me, asking if I could cut down the nut slots on his 'Partscaster' Stratocaster. The guitar was made up of a 1980's Squier body to which he had recently added a Fender neck that he bought via eBay. The nut slots on the neck gave the guitar a very high first fret action. On inspecting the guitar, I realised that it really needed a full setup. This involved:
1. Adjusting the truss rod, 2. Shimming the neck/body joint to allow a good action to be obtained within the adjustment range of the bridge saddles, 3. Adjusting the bridge saddles to give a comfortable 12th fret playing action, 4. Cutting down the nut slots to give a comfortable 1st fret playing action, 5. Adjusting the intonation. Additionally, the customer asked for a couple of Tusq string guides to be fitted to the headstock and the earth wire solder joint onto the vibrato claw needed repairing. As the title says, the customer had a Fender Precision Bass that he wanted setting up. He was particularly keen to get the intonation correct. I did a full setup including truss rod adjustment, action adjustment, pickup height adjustment and intonation adjustment, The intonation in particular was in need of sorting out, just as the customer had flagged up.
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