Chapter 98: Set Up Your Guitar Like a Pro Step 1 - Neck Relief — Transcript

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1. 0:00All
2. 0:00>> [music]
3. 0:04>> right, everybody. If you've made it this
4. 0:06far with me, congratulations. This is
5. 0:08huge. Our strings are on. And
6. 0:15[music] that doesn't sound too bad. I'm
7. 0:17pretty happy with that. Now, it's going
8. 0:19to take a little bit of coaxing to get
9. 0:22it to play a little bit better. So, we
10. 0:24want to go through a complete setup. And
11. 0:26I'm going to walk you guys through that
12. 0:28right now. In the setup, the first
13. 0:30adjustment we need to take a look at is
14. 0:32the neck relief. And that is kind of the
15. 0:36sway that is built into the guitar neck.
16. 0:41So to measure that, I'm going to put a
17. 0:43capo on the first.
18. 0:47And then I'm going to fret at the 14th
19. 0:52so that I've got a straight line from
20. 0:54the first fret to the 14th fret. Take a
21. 0:57feeler gauge. Now, you can use a
22. 1:01business card as well. Business cards
23. 1:03tend to work fairly well, but I like to
24. 1:06use um this feeler gauge at 8,000.
25. 1:10Anywhere between 8,000 and um 1/100th
26. 1:16is going to be just fine.
27. 1:19And I'm going to feel around the sixth
28. 1:21or seventh fret. So when I insert that
29. 1:24feeler gauge, I am actually pushing the
30. 1:27string up just a little bit and I don't
31. 1:30want to do that. It can touch the
32. 1:32string, but I don't want this feeler
33. 1:35gauge to actually move the string. And
34. 1:38it is. So if my feeler gauge is touching
35. 1:43this, I want to move the neck up a
36. 1:46little bit to provide just a little bit
37. 1:48more relief. So, I need to go in with my
38. 1:52truss rod wrench. And with these LMI
39. 1:55truss rods, if you turn it clockwise,
40. 2:01it is going to force that neck back and
41. 2:04it's going to um give you less relief.
42. 2:08If you move that counterclockwise, it's
43. 2:11going to bring the peg head up just a
44. 2:14little bit. So, I need to move it
45. 2:16counterclockwise
46. 2:18just a little bit. Not much at all. So,
47. 2:22I'm going to move it. Okay, now it's in.
48. 2:29Now, it was in neutral and
49. 2:33I moved it just a little bit and that
50. 2:35tightened it up. And that's kind of all
51. 2:38I really need to do is move it
52. 2:42counterclockwise just enough to put some
53. 2:44tension on it.
54. 2:49And let's see if that did anything.
55. 2:55Just moved the string slightly. So I'm
56. 2:57going to move it just a little bit more.
57. 3:04Just the tiniest bit of movement there.
58. 3:08I'm going to move it
59. 3:11one more time.
60. 3:19And that is perfect.
61. 3:23I'm getting almost no movement.
62. 3:27Really not pushing the strings up and
63. 3:29down. I'm making contact.
64. 3:34Okay, let me check the high E
65. 3:37just to see where we're at there.
66. 3:42There we don't have quite as much.
67. 3:46A little less neck relief right there
68. 3:53on the sixth and seventh. It is moving
69. 3:55those strings a little bit. All right,
70. 3:57one more adjustment
71. 4:01and that should really take care of it.
72. 4:13Okay, that's really
73. 4:18about perfect.
74. 4:23And I'm gonna use
75. 4:26[snorts] one feeler gauge bigger,
76. 4:30which is 011.
77. 4:34And there it is moving the string. Yep.
78. 4:38So I'm at a good place. [music]
79. 4:4008.
80. 4:43Neck relief is done.
81. 4:45Just to recap real quick, cable at the
82. 4:49first, fret at the 14th, somewhere
83. 4:52around the um sixth or 7th. We want to
84. 4:55check right in the middle.
85. 4:58We want to do
86. 5:0008 or a business card is usually about
87. 5:05that thickness. And I'm just making
88. 5:08contact, sliding under, not moving the
89. 5:10string. And that is exactly what I want.
90. 5:14The next one we'll move on to is action
91. 5:18at the nut. We'll see you then.
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