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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Hello everyone. I am still fightning my age old battle of getting the acion as low I can on my electric guitars. I use .10-.46 gauge strings, and I play with a light touch. I guess I finally have learned after all these years that I must live with a little buzz if I am going to keep the action very low. Can you guys tell me how you have your action set, and what gauge strings you use? Thanks...Paul Hebert |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "after all these years that I must live with a little buzz if I am going to keep the action very low."
I used to think that for many years, but then I learned about neck adjustments, intonation, and saddle height. I have a B.C. Rich 10-String that I don't think you can get a piece of paper between the strings and the frets, at any point on the neck, and there is no buzz.
It also depends on the neck itself. Sometimes they just really aren't designed to get the action that low, or they are slightly warped etc... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | bass- 2.5 to 3/32
treble 2/32
12-52 lite set
On slothead #35 I do use a xlite ac set which is 11-50 I think. It has had bowl stretching problems in the past |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul
If you look at any literature on proper neck adjustment it will show a slight reverse bow to the neck, this gives action without buzzing. The strings vibrate in nodes so at the 12th fret or thereabout there is little vibration, at the 5th or 6th it is whipping around and also at the 18th or thereabout. The advantage to properly set up guitars is that you can get low action without buzzing. Unfortunately, it might take a neck repair if that reverse bow is not right. That is what makes rich or famous guitarists lucky, they hand it to their brand sponsor and say "fix it or I won't play it". Dubyatoo ran the company so you can be sure his necks were right when he got his guitars.
I have strong hands so I live with whatever crap somebody hands me to play. My home guitars I spend time abjusting and sighting down the neck and measuring at various frets and get so involved with action that I almost forget how to play.
Bailey |
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very low action and buzz