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| My new Legend plays really smooth. However, I noticed that the action on the higher frets (closer to the body) is nealy twice as high as the action at the lower frets (near the head).
This is not a particularly big deal for me, but I was wondering if this is something that should be adjusted.
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Location: Scotland | Try removing one or two shims from under the bridge saddle/pickup. You may then have to release the truss-rod a little.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Alina
This is something that keeps making me think that progress is moving backwards. Used to be when you bought a guitar you could take it back to the shop and have it adjusted as it inevitably changed during the first few months of use. We are now either going to become a generation playing atrociously out of whack guitars, or a generation of home based repair techs. What are those guitar buyers who don't have access to a site like this doing when their action becomes unplayable, I guess the modern solution is to throw it away and buy another one (usually with the parents money).
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Location: Scotland | Bailey, another school of thought is that basic action set-up and adjustment are skills that every player should have. |
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If it were not for throw aways's and mom and dad buying guitars, how would the rest of us get such good deals on e-bay?
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul & Willard
I agree with both of you, but I have to get in a bitch about the good old days periodically.
Living in the modern world also has it's good points as you have pointed out.
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| Removing some of the shims should be easy, especially since I am going to be removing the strings that came on the guitar and put new ones on anyhow. On the other hand, there is NO WAY that I am going to adjust the truss rod. If I need an adjustment, I'll go to a pro.
Can someone tell me how you would know if the truss rod needs adjustment (what would be "wrong" with the neck that would require it)?
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Location: Scotland | Adjusting truss rods has been discussed in a few earlier threads. Try a search on "neck relief" or "Truss rod" |
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Neck adjustment?
