General Music Chat

I just went to do some recording, but my acoustic guitar is now buzzing, somewhere around the 8th-9th frets, on up . . .
So it's time to raise the bridge, again.
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I cannot keep any kind of humidity in my little 2-room apartment, for I have a wood stove for heat. If I put 2 gallons of water a day into the air, I can only raise the humidity up to about 37%, which is waaay too low.
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So, every year about this time I have to shim the saddle.
I've got a couple different saddles I use.
I've taken a file to the bottom sides of them, to produce different heights.
Then for fine-tuning, to get the action as low as possible without rattling,
I've used strips of paper and shirt cardboard.
There's a pickup under the saddle, and so I sometimes have to adjust the guitar's equalizer a tad. So the tone is fine.
For the last couple of years, though, I've been using plastic shims under the saddle; they don't compress, with time, and they probably produce a marginally brighter tone.
This plastic is readily available for free, just take some scissors to the lid of a cottage cheese or yogurt container, or something similar. This plastic makes for good shim material. It is about the thickness of a "B" or "G" string, depending upon what guage strings you use.
But, when setting up the action, every little fraction makes a difference.

It happens.

I just was playing my bass when I discovered that the weather has caused me to consider a new setup since the truss rod needs turned.

"it's always something"

tempature certainly affects the tuning on my instruments but living in GA I do everything I can to keep the humidity down.

Talbot

'All good,' now.
I put in my 2nd bridge, and a new set of strings.
Sounds good, and the action doesn't seem too bad at all.
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I was polishing my fretboard, and I see that I've got grooves in the frets that are now noticable all the way up to the 12th fret; that guitar has seen some serious playing.
And the rosewood fretboard has troughs in it from my fingertips, all the way up to the 15th fret . . . acoustic guitar w/ a cut-out . . .
I'm thinking it's time to start thinking of getting another guitar . . .

I actually wore all the way through the Rosewood fingerboard on my acoustic. I filed the board since it was beyond repair, and the frets looked like polished rail road ties sitting on Rosewood risers. Regardless, the enjoyment soon dissipated and I went for a SG Custom and later a Les Paul.

'All good,' now.
I put in my 2nd bridge, and a new set of strings.
Sounds good, and the action doesn't seem too bad at all.
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I was polishing my fretboard, and I see that I've got grooves in the frets that are now noticable all the way up to the 12th fret; that guitar has seen some serious playing.
And the rosewood fretboard has troughs in it from my fingertips, all the way up to the 15th fret . . . acoustic guitar w/ a cut-out . . .
I'm thinking it's time to start thinking of getting another guitar . . .

not sure what kind of gtr or it's $ value that you're dealing with but if it's anything more than a mid level job and is near and dear to your heart why not just get a fret job and have the divots removed from the fingerboard? of course a refret ain't cheap, so that's a consideration... as well as bringing it to qualified person you trust.

The last few quotes I got, around this area, were around $180.
The guitar's not worth it, I'll eventually get a replacement.
I think I can get a few more years out of it . . .

Thats why I play electric, it just adds to the fuzz tone! LOL!