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Thor: Take the neck off and insert a small shim about the thickness
of a matchbook between the neck and body this should correct the tilt
of the neck. A repair man will charge about $40 bucks for this, but
you can easily do it yourself. Generaly, strats play better with
higher action, and you really have to fight them to get them to sing,
but the rewards of this struggle are well worth it; no other guitar
can sing like a strat in the right hands.
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "One Four Six Oh" <thor1460@h...> wrote:
> >My advice is you crank that fucker down against the body
> >and forget upward bends
>
> That's what I have done. I do whammys by grabbing the bridge (with
either
> hand, depending on which one isn't needed). I originally started
doing this
> because I lost my whammy bar, but then I realized I hated the
whammy bar
> because it got in the way of my palm muting of the high strings.
So that's
> just what I do now. This is much easier when there are less
springs in the
> back, but since I moved to .12's I had to add an extra spring. I
don't
> really ever have problems with going out of tune with the bridge
all the way
> down + I always tune UP to the note, otherwise it will slip out of
tune if
> you whammy and bend. Atleast that is what I have found.
>
> >As for your neck bowing - thats why they have trussrods, eh?
>
> I have flatwound 12's on mine and my action kind of sucks. The
main problem
> isn't bow, but that the neck just leans forward a little bit. How
much does
> it cost to have this fixed or set up? I'm not that concerned about
my
> action because I can still play it fine.
>
> -Thor Andersen, Monsters From Mars
>
>
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