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Location: Delaware | Does backing off on the truss rod, giving the neck some relief, make the strings harder to push down to the fret wire in the first couple positions ? Backed mine off just a tad after removing a shim and it feels like it takes more finger pressure now, or am I just nuts? ( Well of course I am, I'm here ain't I ) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Taking out a shim decreases the 'break angle' at the bridge.
Loosening the truss-rod increases the distance between the strings and the frets at the middle of the fretboard.
That 'break angle' thing might make it a bit harder to push the strings...
But I would trust my fingertips. If they say that it is hard to finger, they are right!
What kinda strings are you using? What gauge? |
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Location: Delaware | Only tried a different brand, didn't change gauge 12-53. |
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Location: Utah | The engineer in me says it shouldn't make a perceptible difference. The angle of the string from the nut to the first few frets will not change much, maybe a few degrees. The height will not move much at all, fractions of a percent. Trig tells us that such changes shouldn't increase force at all.
But as Old Man Arthur said, the final judge is your fingers.
Maybe the nut is too high? |
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Location: CA | There is a good explanation of truss rod and bridge adjustment in the Ovationguitars.com site (also appears in new guitar manuals):
www.ovationguitars.com/img/OVmanual.pdf |
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