Highroller
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- Sep 30, 2016
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Hello,
Last week I picked up a new 50's Standard Goldtop. First new guitar in 15 years. Anyway I was a happy camper until I started to set the guitar up to my liking. First issue was Gibson had the neck straight as an arrow, truss rod way to tight. Backing it off little by little, I was waiting for some relief in the neck but that never happened, even with the truss rod nut totally loose, no relief at all, Bummer! I place a one inch wood dowel rod at the 12th fret and strung the strings over it and tuned it up to 440. I let it set in the case overnight and bingo! Relief in the neck, about a half turn on the truss rod placed the neck about perfect, but that's at 440 I tune down a half step. Didn't have an issue after I tuned down, another tweak to the truss rod and again bingo right where I wanted it.
Now that the neck was set, I continued onto the action and noticed the high E side of the bridge is bottomed out, action seems ok but if you ever wanted to go lower you can't. The low E side has plenty of adjustment, up or down. Checked the nut and bridge saddle cuts and string spacing everything seems good. Set the pickup height to what I like. I slapped on a new set of Diaddario XL110's, put it back in the case a let it set overnight.
Proceeded to do another string stretch and tuned up to 1/2 step down. While setting the intonation, checking it multiple times over a day and a half, this is what I've run into. High E, B, D and A strings intonate around the middle of the ABR1 bridge but the G and low E are maxed out with the saddles flipped to the rear of the bridge and both strings are still sharp.
I've checked everything, I can think of and everything seems right, but still no way to move the saddles to properly lengthen the G and Low E.
Any help would be appreciated before I take it back for an exchange, still have two weeks.
Thanks
Tony
Last week I picked up a new 50's Standard Goldtop. First new guitar in 15 years. Anyway I was a happy camper until I started to set the guitar up to my liking. First issue was Gibson had the neck straight as an arrow, truss rod way to tight. Backing it off little by little, I was waiting for some relief in the neck but that never happened, even with the truss rod nut totally loose, no relief at all, Bummer! I place a one inch wood dowel rod at the 12th fret and strung the strings over it and tuned it up to 440. I let it set in the case overnight and bingo! Relief in the neck, about a half turn on the truss rod placed the neck about perfect, but that's at 440 I tune down a half step. Didn't have an issue after I tuned down, another tweak to the truss rod and again bingo right where I wanted it.
Now that the neck was set, I continued onto the action and noticed the high E side of the bridge is bottomed out, action seems ok but if you ever wanted to go lower you can't. The low E side has plenty of adjustment, up or down. Checked the nut and bridge saddle cuts and string spacing everything seems good. Set the pickup height to what I like. I slapped on a new set of Diaddario XL110's, put it back in the case a let it set overnight.
Proceeded to do another string stretch and tuned up to 1/2 step down. While setting the intonation, checking it multiple times over a day and a half, this is what I've run into. High E, B, D and A strings intonate around the middle of the ABR1 bridge but the G and low E are maxed out with the saddles flipped to the rear of the bridge and both strings are still sharp.
I've checked everything, I can think of and everything seems right, but still no way to move the saddles to properly lengthen the G and Low E.
Any help would be appreciated before I take it back for an exchange, still have two weeks.
Thanks
Tony