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Location: USA - New Jersey | Does anyone know of a place that will adjust the action on my ovation. I live in scotch plains nj and called sam ashe but they want me to leave the guitar for a week. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Have you tried taking a shim or 2 out from under the saddle/bridge? |
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Location: USA - New Jersey | NO, I read the owners manual and think I am pretty handy but never having done anything like it I was a litte nervous to try. When I fret the low e string on the first and last fret the neck seems dead straight but the action seems high from the 9th freet down. |
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Location: Scotland | Just do it yourself, you can't ruin anything by removing a shim. You can always put it back if the action is too low.
If the neck is dead straight you might need to back off the neck rod a little. Don't be scared of that either. Try a search in the archives and you'll find instructions on how to do it
Basic action adjustments and general set-up are well within the scope of the average guitar owner and are skills worth developing. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Go to the FAQ and read the 12th Q&A.  |
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Location: Location Location Location | You can do it yourself as others have suggested; but if you decide to have the guitar serviced for this, or for any other reason, a week is not a long time to wait. Anyone worth their salt, service wise, will generally take much longer than that. The good techs are very busy people. Down here in Austin, a month to 2 is the norm, and longer if you're having a bigger job done, like a neck reset, or fret work. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | On the other hand, it's less than 5 minutes to loosen the strings, pull the shim and tweek the neck and retune. That's assuming you don't have a string crank. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | What Beal said +1... |
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