My mandolin has a bit of a bow in the neck and it is affecting the playability seeing how short the neck is. I am getting ready to do a truss rod tweak. Should I simply approach it the way I would do a guitar/bass truss rod? Or are the other considerations I should be aware of before jumping in?
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Slight bow in mandolin neck - advice needed
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My mandolin doesn't even have a truss rod. : (Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
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Originally posted by GuitarStv View PostMy mandolin doesn't even have a truss rod. : (
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Originally posted by Securb View Post
Mine is a budget Ibanez mandolin. I think I paid just north of $100 for it. It does have a truss rod and a pickup. It sounds decent with some mod, delay, or reverb. I have plugged it into the Marshall to see what it sounded like with high gain and as you can imagine it was a shrill feedback-filled mess. It does take to the JC 120 very nicely.Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
Originally posted by Douglas AdamsThis planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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Mine is a budget Ibanez mandolin. I think I paid just north of $100 for it. It does have a truss rod and a pickup. It sounds decent with some mod, delay, or reverb. I have plugged it into the Marshall to see what it sounded like with high gain and as you can imagine it was a shrill feedback-filled mess. It does take to the JC 120 very nicely.
aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever
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Is that piece of shipping foam still between the bridge and top?
Before you mess with the pickup, you should fit the bridge to the top. There are plenty of tutorials online, but I've had great luck with taping sandpaper to the top and carefully sliding the bridge back and forth so its contour matches the top. If you're not already using D'addario's 11.5-41 strings, I'd recommend those, too. Whether it was a $500 Eastman or a $10k Gibson F5, heavy strings improve the sound, and since you're not bending strings, you can get the action really low so it's no harder to play.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by Securb View Post
It is a solid top. You are right a pickup swap would be nice, seeing I am not a fan of singles. I wonder if MJ could make me a little Black Winter to throw in it.Originally posted by dominusYour rant would sound better with an A8 magnet, it'll beef it up some without sacrificing some of the whine.
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Originally posted by larryguitar View PostIs there room to add a washer beneath the TR nut? That can give it a bit more oomph if you're out of threads.
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