DIY: How to Adjust Your Guitar's Neck Relief & Truss Rod-Plus, Fix Your Action | Helmer’s How-Tos
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2022
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In the second episode of our Helmer’s How-Tos DIY series, expert luthier Dave Helmer shows you how to keep notes sweet by adjusting the truss rod to improve your guitar’s neck relief (don't worry, you won 't break it), or by raising or lowering action on the fretboard. For the best results, a string action gauge will come in handy.
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I want to add that your conversational approach is so much easier to follow that a lot of videos where the speaker is taking forever to make simple important points. I appreciate your way of doing this a whole lot. 👍👍
Instead of just going "back and forth between relief and action", it's best to remember the acronym "T.R.A.I.N." mentioned by Ron Thorn.
Tune first, then set the Relief aka adjusting the Rod, then set the Action, check the Intonation, Noodle for a bit. Repeat those steps until satisfied.
Satisfied meaning that you can leave out steps 1-4 and go straight to playing with your strings being the desired height, enough relief not to touch frets higher up, and the intonation being as consistent as possible throughout the fretboard. This all also changes when you switch string gauges and you will want to give it a full setup.
Great video and explanations! So many videos fail to explain the concepts or provide the specs that they are adjusting to. The bending ruler for relief and the tape roll for radius were very clever props that conveyed the concepts perfectly! You also noted the fret numbers and specs for your action height. Very much appreciated. Thanks!
First , I discovered doing this with bicycles when I was young, then I moved to motorcycles and cars, I retired and built my own computer and it still works great, now I am setting up my guitars and discovering what I have missed. One day we will get back into the N scale model railroading.
Truss rods are adjusted maybe 1/8 turn at a time. Clockwise (tighter) makes the neck flatten out or bow backward. Counter-clockwise (looser) makes the neck bow forward (cupping and adding relief). 1/8 turn is plenty at a time and allow a bit of time with strings at full tension to see the result.
I watched this forever ago, it was super helpful then, and for a freakin WEEK I've been looking everywhere on youtube trying to find it again, so I finally remembered that I just happened to accidentally screenshot last year when watching it, but then there was no title or anything because it was a thumbnail! But. I finally found ya. Phew. This is the best and clearest video on this shit on UA-cam man. I watched about a hundred others trying to find this again. I will subscribe so it doesn't happen again.
Bookmark this video ASAP, JAMES!
About the best tutorial I have found on this subject. Thanks :)
Good stuff Dave - you’re a natural !!
best video about guitar setup I’ve ever seen
Well done - saving this to my favorites for future reference. Thanks Dave.
Great information clearly demonstrated & explained. I do all-my-own work, and enjoy learning tips & tricks. This was a master-class. Awesome job. Enjoyed it.
Watched this video and was able to solve the buzzing on my new Squier Starcaster, thanks so much!
Very helpful. Thank you 👍
THANKS , DAVE !
Great video , thanks!
Really good video. I have checked out a few. Probably the best explanation and examples I've seen.
very helpful indeed, thank you!
Didn't know it, but this is the vid I have been looking for.
My guitar: 2004 Ibanez AG85-TRD (hollow body)
Same upper register problem.
Thanks for the upload.!
YOOO THIS FIXED MY GUITAR!!!!! ULTRA THANK YOU!
Glad I could help!
@@premierguitar Thank you again. You made a shitty day a lot better!
Thanks for this video it's very helpful
Nice Video!! Thank you!!
Thank you great help
Thank you,very well explained and demonstrated! Is too much relief the same as what is called underbow?
Great video
Like the may you get things across. Ty it helped me!!
Great video. What string winder is that?
Excellent video! What color is the Gibson?
Way cool...I see I did it wrong! Great video. Thank you
Great value Jack Black
Nice
nice 👍👍
That string winder is next level.
Really nice video. Informative. But what if you adjust the neck properly on type of guitar that has a telecaster type bridge, and the saddles go as high as they can? Do you shim the bridge itself? (Raise it) thank you!!
Awesome video. Really helpful
thanks Dave!
Do heavy strings tuned to standard tuning naturally have higher action? I'm having trouble differentiating between my truss rod adjustment and action. Should I set my bridge height to be in the middle and adjust the truss rod from there?
I’m following you. I’ve watched dozens of neck, relief, videos, and you’re the only one who use that straight edge to explain. In two seconds, you made it crystal clear. That’s how I know you know what you’re doing ha ha. I got my telecaster neck perfect and it makes playing so much easier when you’re not fighting the buzz.
Have a new MIM Tele Player. Have had to adjust the neck twice now due to weather changes.
Had an 83 MIM reissue 52 never had to adjust the neck.
I noticed that my high e string takes a lot of pressure to push down. Is that normal? What should I do? Also, a few years ago, the string saddle was pulled up out from the body. I tightened the screws inside the string compartment to make it flat again. I'm not sure if it changed anything when I did that.
Very cool vid.
I really like that this dude suggested buying a cheap P.O.S. to practice working on. That's exactly what I did by buying a $60 Rogue acoustic.
I watched many setup video’s, read many articles, bought severals tools, adjusted many guitars with different bridges and still I cannot manage to setup my guitar properly 😅. It is not so easy as it looks like. So many factors to keep in mind. But one thing I found out is that the fretwork is the main problem most of the time.
Only go by hi and lo E. For truss on Gibson styles
How much to have you do mine? I’m local.
I wonder how they do this during the manufacturing process
I'm kinda is personal preference but there are and should be some basic guidelines for the action height.
I didnt know jack black had his own guitar channel
You NEVER set your guitar down on the input/output jacks !!! Especially when the chord is plugged in !😢
Nerd!!!
lol it’s a 90 degree cable. Not really going to be an issue with minimal pressure on a towel covered surface
Is there a more scientific way than just looking at the neck to figure out if it's back bowed or not?
The biggest problem is all that reverb you’ve got in the frets
Turn, turn, snap, twang.......💩
Holy shit you look like Jack Black
What no video
Wrong.
You should have turned off the reverb when testing for buzzing frets. What we really don't need is a pile of echo distorting the original sound.