So I’m trying to set up my ST-1. Initially when I had first put the guitar together, there was a lot of buzzing on all strings and frets, to the point that you couldn’t even ring out a note. At that point I raised the saddles up as far as they could go, which fixed nearly all the buzzing.

So from what I understand, the first step of the setup is to adjust the neck. So being that my bridge isn’t correct, and I just raised it to max, I lowered it again to an average bridge height, which of course brought some buzzing back.

So in terms of checking the neck relief, I watched some YouTube videos to help me along. I put a capo on the first fret and pressed down on the last fret of the guitar. I put a feeler gauge (10th of an inch) at the seventh fret. It seems there was no relief and the gauge was pushing the string up. So I’ve turned the truss rod anti-clockwise to add relief, but it doesn’t seem to of changed much.

Just want to know if I’m on the right track on setting up the guitar, and know how does adjusting the neck relief work in relation to the bridge height?

It also seems like the action is high on the first few frets, I had a look and the nut looks very high. How can I safely file it down without any damage?

Thanks