Trying to learn how to adjust my neck

Napthol said:
Some necks do not flex correctly. I had a Classic Vibe like that. It would be okay for a few days and then start buzzing again. Total garbage. Both my techs told me that.

My Player Strat has not been shimmed. John died before I even had this particular guitar. And Mark has not seen it yet either.

Don't assume.
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I'm not assuming. I'm just trying to encourage you to do something that isn't hard to do. You can save a few bucks by doing it yourself. Plus no one knows what you like better than you. Even if your tech is fantastic, he's not inside your head.

You said it yourself. The neck on your Classic Vibe was garbage. There's very little your tech could've done to salvage it. At least not without costing you an arm and a leg, I guess. The neck on my Classic Vibe was touchy too. It wasn't unusable, but wasn't nearly as stable as on my Gibson. But knowing how to adjust it, I could just nudge the truss rod a smidge every time I felt like if it was acting up. I did it myself so that I don't have to take it to a tech and lose time and money doing it.

But honestly, man, if you just didn't want to do it yourself, why post a thread about it at all? People here are trying to encourage you not because they want you to break your guitar, but because we all do it, and we wanted you to give it a try so that maybe you could save yourself some time and money and learn a new skill.
 
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Someone was assuming that my tech had already shimmed the neck. If it was not you then I wasn't referring to you. The neck was never shimmed and does not need to be.
 
Napthol said:
Someone was assuming that my tech had already shimmed the neck. If it was not you then I wasn't referring to you. The neck was never shimmed and does not need to be.
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That was me. But I wasn't trying to be a dick or trying to say you're stupid for not knowing. I was just saying that if your tech had already thought it needed a shim, he would've installed it. He didn't. Alright. But still... adjusting the truss rod doesn't really have to do with needing a shim. A shim has more to do with bridge height and neck angle.

But if you're asking for help, and you're discounting the help everyone is offering argumenting we really don't know what we're talking about, then I don't know what you really want.
 
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