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Old 2006-08-29, 02:42
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raising action

hi my fellow metalheads i'm hoping some of u guys can help me out here. I've got a jackson warrior usa series(awsome red guitar) and i'm a low on money right now so instead of taking it in to a shop i'm going to try and fix it myself.

It's a floyd rose and my problem started a few months back when i started getting buzzing on the first fret. Then about a month later it started to buzz on 2nd, 3rd and 4th frets. So i took the strings off and that was about a month ago.

So today i raised the action(the two screws on the side of the bridge) and it got rid of the buzzing. Now my problem is lowering the action past the 9th fret without messing with the action on the first 7 frets. I knew i was going to have this problem 'cause it's common sense that if you raise the action on the first few frets the rest will follow.

I'm assuming that i'm going to have to mess with the truss rod but i'll wait and see what you guys have to say.
 
Old 2006-08-29, 07:59
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Sounds like the neck is bent or something. I kind of lost you on your problem, but maybe because its 3am. Ill check it out again tomorrow but unless i see the guitar i probably have no idea hah
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Old 2006-08-30, 15:41
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I think a neck is to expensive to fuck around with.. Did you buy it at a store? Maybe they will adjust it for free... They should.
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Old 2006-08-30, 15:45
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hi my fellow metalheads i'm hoping some of u guys can help me out here. I've got a jackson warrior usa series(awsome red guitar) and i'm a low on money right now so instead of taking it in to a shop i'm going to try and fix it myself.

It's a floyd rose and my problem started a few months back when i started getting buzzing on the first fret. Then about a month later it started to buzz on 2nd, 3rd and 4th frets. So i took the strings off and that was about a month ago.

So today i raised the action(the two screws on the side of the bridge) and it got rid of the buzzing. Now my problem is lowering the action past the 9th fret without messing with the action on the first 7 frets. I knew i was going to have this problem 'cause it's common sense that if you raise the action on the first few frets the rest will follow.

I'm assuming that i'm going to have to mess with the truss rod but i'll wait and see what you guys have to say.

Sounds like you need a truss rod adjustment. It takes about 2 minutes if you know what you are doing. I, however, would not be one of those people who would know what I am doing. That is one of those things you definitley need someone to show you how to do, or if you are a good visual leraner just find a good website about it. But I"m pretty sure your truss rod is the culprit.
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Old 2006-08-30, 16:09
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Old 2006-08-30, 16:38
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thanks alot guys.
seeing as im probably going to have to mess with the truss rod and this is a 2 thousand dollar guitar i'm going to have to be patient and save up some money. If it wasn't such a nice guitar i'd do it myself but i don't want to fuck this guitar up.

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