Checking your guitar's neck angle explained
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2019
- Something that often gets overlooked when purchasing or diagnosing a guitar's playability, I'll demonstrate how to check a guitar's neck angle and why it's important.
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Extremely concise and clear. Thank you for this!
Thanks for posting this informative video. Happy Holidays!
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
well explained between neck relief and neck angle.
Thanks for this video!
You're correct, this is very simple and nobody else said it. Thank you.
Thanks for that. Useful!
Thank you for this!
Thank you very much for making this video. I just got a new Martin D-18 and the neck is definitely off. I am returning it. I thought something was off when I noticed the saddle looked shorter than my other guitars... again thanks.
Thanks C. J.!
Thanks for the video. Any thoughtz regarding finding the right qngle on electric guitar where the bridge is not set? Thanks
Thank you man
keep it simple cheers mate
Thank you.
How can I measure the degree of a set neck electric? I'm trying to find out if my SG & Firebird are good candidates for a Maestro Vibrola.
There are a few other steps to get better accuracy. First of all, most guitars that ar set up properly, the last frets will be lower. Not by much but lower none the less. Those have no bearing on the playability. The straightedge needs to to be on the frets after before that dive. Preferably after the truss rod has been set with zero relief. If you use a shorter straightedge like yours, and you try to do this with relief holding the straightedge against the frets on the 8th fret, or there abouts, the bridge side of the straightedge will be higher than if done with a straight neck with no relief and level frets. The straightedge should just clear the top of the bridge and slide up to the base of the saddle. The gap between the top of the bridge and the bottom of the straightedge should zero to very small. If it just barely hits the bridge, almost clears or clears and has a small gap, you can still set it up by making adjustments to the saddle. When you get to the point where the saddle is too low, the break angle of the strings coming from the peg holes over the saddle becomes to low, not putting enough down pressure on saddle. Other issues arise when the saddle is too high off the bridge. So the perfect neck angle should be base of saddle with minimal tolerance up or down. And minimal can vary but should be very little.
When are you going to your own video that goes into greater detail? It’s needed!
Actually neck relief as little effect on overall neck angle. Only the thinner parts of the neck near the head stock actually respond to a truss rod adjustment. The lower part of the neck does not really change angle. With this length of straight edge what he is doing is ok.
@@mrofnocnonI never said neck relief has an effect on neck angle. The first 2 or 3 frets closest to the nut will raise when tightening the truss. Or maybe lower. I just know they move. The lower part of the neck on a Les Paul is beefy starting at 13/14 so of course it will not move. Using a longer straight edge will give you more info and help get it more accurate. Not to mention it will show you how straight the entire neck is. Kind of important. Especially if you are going for lowest possible action with no buzz.
@@chuckyz2 But then this video was about neck angle not neck relief .
@@mrofnocnon And checking neck angle with a short straightedge is retarded.
When doing this, if there is space between the ruler and the fretboard from around 12/13 fret onward, is this correct or does it mean the guitar has a problem? On my guitar If I fit the ruler as you say in the video, it hits just right at the bottom of the saddle and slightly above the top of the bridge, but there is a gap between the ruler and the fretboard from around 13th fret onward.
I think the idea is that the space is the same all along the neck between strings and frets. Maybe it just amounts to whether you can live with it. Your guitar's neck must be warped a bit.
This is great! Could you please do the same for electric?
The same concept applies. They are both guitars.
do you mean set up. doesn't have this issue,while most bolt on guitars have?
The last fret is at a lower height than the others To touch the last fret with the straight edge wouldn't the back of the straight edge then lift up off of the fret it was touching?
How to check if the neck is straight?
Nothing helps? But then why can one not install a higher or lower bridge? Yours is a great explanation but it seems to mean only that the plain of the top of the frets must also be the plain of the bridge. Presumably the top of the nut then also has to match the top of the saddle. So the big idea is that the strings end up parallel to the frets at all points on the neck.
The strings don't end up parallel to the neck. The clearance at the first fret is only 15-20 thousands and at the 12th fret it's 60-90.
Very important topic that nobody is speaking about
We should be talking about me coming to your house and dropping a deuce in your toilet.
This is the problem of my guitar ovation.
check out blues creek guitar
See comment below for correct method
Ok so I said Ok at the begging of my video .
this.
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This is all wrong. Obviously, bridge height and saddle height are not standard. The straight edge hitting the top of the bridge is obviously NOT universal. A better approach is to determine the height of the strings from the soundboard to where the bottom of the string hits the saddle. Geez Louise.
Terrible sound. My brain can't pay attention to what you saying with all the noise and the echo in yout voice