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Acoustic noob question on neck "stability"
Hey guys
acoustic noob here. Was fiddling around on a mate's acoustic - a custom job done by a local luthier (Italy) - and noticed that there was plenty of buzzing going on between the V and VII frets. He was pretty unfazed, just took out his hex key and set the neck nice and true again. But here's the point. His comment was "oh it happens all the time, especially when the weather changes". It his normal? I mean for a neck to move that much? |
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Depends on what your mean by plenty of buzzing. However I have to adjust my guitars from summer to winter.
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Sounds like he is skirting the boundaries of action too low to me.
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I'd say it that it depends on how often it needs adjustment before I'd call it "unstable." As stated above, a couple of tweaks now and then isn't at all unheard of or abnormal, especially if the humidity varies widely from season to season.
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I agree that the builder's response sounds a bit disingenuous to me, though. |
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How much is "that much"?
The difference could be as little as "half a hair" and as had been noted already, is very likely the result of trying to set the action as low as possible in the first place. Still, the location of the problem at frets 5-7 merits further examination. In the words of the immortal Douglas Adams, "DON'T PANIC".
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Thank you for the many excellent replies.
Yes the guitar IS vey easy to play - especially since I'm used to electrics. What I mean by "plenty of buzzing" is that the strings were almost choking - that "bad". I mean I've been to stores that carry some very nice stuff (Collings, Goodall, Taylor, etc) and I've never seen anything that radical from any guitar out of the case. I had also heard of acoustic guitars' "seasonality" factor - i.e. that there were "summer" and "winter" (or dry vs. wet season) guitars. As I said my mate's remark "all the time" left me a bit surprised (I had also voiced my concern directly to him, but as I said he seemed pretty much unperturbed). |
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Good advice, it is a combination of string height, nut string channel depth (open strings only), bridge height, fret level, environmental conditions, player's attack, stability of the wood in question and many more I suppose. Lots of variables at play. |
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neck, warp, weather |
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