To adjust the bow in the neck of your guitar you need a capo and a set of automotive feeler gauges, put the capo on the neck between the nut and the 1st fret, next select the .012inch feeler gauge from the set of automotive feeler gauges and use it to check the gap at the 7th or 8th fret of the low E and high E strings while fretting at the 17th fret, you want to adjust the neck bow so that the .012inch feeler gauge just fits between the top of the 7th or 8th fret and the bottom of the two E strings.
If the gap is too small loosen the truss-rod nut, if the gap is too big tighten the truss-rod nut.
A guitar neck for an electric guitar is actually not supposed to be dead-straight when all strings are tuned to pitch, there is actually supposed to be a slight forward bow in the neck, this is to accommodate for the way the string vibrates when plucked which is an elliptical shape, and reduces the tendency for the string to buzz against the frets.
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 15-01-2018 at 04:42 PM.
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