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| Is it very hard to lower the action on my Adamas op50 or will I get it done professionally... in that case, how much will it be...help |
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Location: Orange County, California | Not at all Stan. It's very easy. Usually all you have to do is remove a shim from under the saddle. Perhaps when you change your strings. Do you change your own strings Stan? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | hit it with a hammer |
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Location: big island | aloha stan!
welcome to the OFC. and expect some good assistance and some...shall we say, "gooder" assistance. cwk2 knows what he's talkin' about though. his daddy started this whole mess. |
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Location: closely held secret | Except he was probably joking about the hammer thing, maybe. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by cwk2:
hit it with a hammer That only works for Taylors, actually.  |
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Location: NJ | Hey! . . . it's how you "tune" a tabla . . . AND a steel drum . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think it still shows you how in the manual. My newest is a couple years old. You can do it by loosening the strings, but it's easier to just take them off. Remove shim, put saddle back, tune strings. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by cliff:
Hey! . . . it's how you "tune" a tabla . . . AND a steel drum . . . Works well on Banjo's too. :D |
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Location: closely held secret | And accordions. |
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Location: Orange County, California | I thought he said "Hit it with your your HAMER", like go play on your electric. That guitar would have a lower action wouldn't it? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | First make sure the neck is straight
Second, take out a shim
Third, take a Hammer and tune all the Taylors, manually and completely
Fourth, take out your Hamer and play a tune about it |
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| LOL thanks for the help lads, its my first Ovation so the hammer`s out...I`ll take a look at the saddle the next time I restring...is it easy to get out or will it take the claw end of the hammer. |
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Location: big island | your teeth will work well, unless you have a bad underbite. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by Lanaki:
your teeth will work well, unless you have a bad underbite. ....Like Randy :D :p :D :p
Really easy Stan. Some of us do it without taking the strings all the way off. I just loosen them enough to lift them completely up off the saddle. You might want to take the access cover off the back to loosen the wire running from the OP-50 (your preamp, not the model of your adamas BTW) up to the saddle. Then you can push up on the wire to help get the saddle out of the bridge.
Hope this is more help than the hammer.... |
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| I did like you said...took the bridge off and took out the three shims...its amazing and so darn easy..even I did it... oh p.s its a W597 not an OP-50 |
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Location: Orange County, California | W597 WITH and OP-50 Pre-amp. Nice guitar :D |
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Location: Utah | W597? That POS will take some serious effort to get properly setup. I bet you'll be messing with it for the next year. You'd better send it to me and I'll fiddle with it for the next 6 or 8 months for you to be sure it's juuust right. |
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