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Alright so I can't get the fret action good on this bad boy. Its just not wanting to cooperate. I've raised and lowered the bridge, just now worked on the truss rod moving it counter clock wise to take out the bend a little bit because it would buzz when I'm on the 1st fret, now its buzzing when I get to the higher frets.

The entire tone of this guitar has just changed, in adjusting my truss rod my Floyd Rose altered its position I relieved tension with the 2 screws on the back to get the tremolo back in place it was in tune now its dropping out, so I'm stretching the strings like crazy.

Please give me an idea how I can save this instrument and get it to awsome playability. Otherwise I'm thinking about ripping out the Jazz/Distortion set and putting back in the old ones and selling it.

(all in consideration) but I would like to salvage it. Or maybe I'm just impatient right now.

Thanks.

Welcome to the world of dealing with floyds. It seems at times things are extremely easy to fix with minor adjustments, other times you just don't know what the hell is going on. My suggestion is to take it to a good guitar tech who works on floyds often. I had to do this with my soloist at first cause I could never get it to where it felt right to me. Tell him your problem and let him get it playing where it should. Once that happens a few minor adjustments should be all you would need for a long time after that.

Thank you for the quick response!

I was hoping I could just deal this by myself but I guess your right. I just want the fret action perfect and it just seems like its not going to happen. Where its a bottom of the barrell instrument is something I keep thinking might have alot to do with it. Probably just slung together shipped off, and then there ya go. Wacked out truss rod, unbalanced bridge.

Practice makes perfect. Keep at it for a while, struggle a little bit, and if all goes to hell, just send it to a tech.

I've only been playing FR equipped guitars exclusively for a year, and well, the opportunity in my budget allowed me to send it to a tech, and I did so just hoping for the best playing guitar I can have. In the mean time, I've gone through all sorts of different setups and had a fair amount of practice on these guitars.

Well, when I dropped it off and told him I'd like him to tell me what some of the flaws in the setup were and he told me that it looked pretty good! Small intonation issues and the neck was a quot;little straightquot; (and in all honesty, I don't really know what that means for a guitar), but point being, PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! It will come to you!

See Rainmaker's Intonation thread in the Vault. I have a long post on it, and if you follow it step by step, you'll get the guitar playing better.

This is the technique i used to use when i had to set up thirty cheap Hohner planks a day.

Put a capo on a high fret, say 9 or 10.

Play the guitar. If the action feels high, lower it. if it feels too low, or frets out, raise it. When you find a point where you are happy with the balance between the the amount of fret buzz and ease of playing, move the capo to the first fret.

Play the guitar. If the action feels stiff around the middle of the fingerboard, tighten the truss rod. If the strings start to buzz anywhere betwen capo and 7th fret, slacken the truss rod until it stops doing it. Find the best compromise between these two extremes.

Take the capo off. If the action feels high at the 1st fret the the nut is too high. This is best left to a pro because if there are no shims under the nut the the guitar needs minor surgery to correct the nut height.

I'm starting to consider the Nut to be the problem now. Maybe its not low enough to the neck to have a considerable low fret action.

Hmmm, maybe if I start shave it down some

Yea we'll leave that to a pro. But I guess that could be the problem.