Set up and intonation on TL-1

[keloooe]

TUSQ should really only be used if you have a tremolo system installed, cause they are seriously good!!

After chatting with a mate who knows a ton about nuts, we decided on this nut guide:
Plastic: THROW THAT $#!7 OUT!!!
Brass: Great for electrics!
Bone: For serious tone, best on acoustics
TUSQ XL: Best for tremolo systems!

[dingobass]

In reply.

Brass, shove it up your ass :P

Tusk, more plastic crap 8O

Bone for Tone baby, everything else is crap! 8-)

[keloooe]

Quote from dingobass on April 2, 2013, 16:34
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Brass, shove it up your ass :P

Tusk, more plastic crap 8O

Bone for Tone baby, everything else is crap! 8-)

That's a keeper, gunna put it in my favorite quotes!

[GlennGP]

I've had to surrender to the inevitable here, and have taken a leaf from Stui's Dad's book in the process. I simply can't justify the purchase of the tools necessary to do the nut work myself, so I've checked the Yellow Peril in with a local luthier this morning to do the deed. Should have it back in a couple of days, nicely set up and ready to rock.

I'm a bit torn between not being able to finish the job myself and finally having something nicely playable. In the end, though, playability must always win.

[keloooe]

As long as its playable, then were fine!

[WeirdBits]

Any updates, Glenn? Is the Yellow Peril now back in your eager hands, set up and playing like a dream?

[GlennGP]

I called the shop again on Friday arvo for an update - at this point it was 16 days since dropping it off, having been told it would be "a couple of days". The bloke at the shop promised to contact the luthier and call me back ... which he did within 10 minutes, to tell me that said luthier became a first-time dad about a fortnight ago and his work rate has fallen dramatically!

No kidding!

So, I'm hard pressed to be upset about the reason for the delay, but I'm slightly miffed by the inability of anyone to keep me in the loop. Still. The luthier is calling me tomorrow to clarify exactly what I want done and how far I want him to take the set up, so hopefully I should have it back within the week.

In the meantime, the kit that will become the Red Menace should be here in the next few days, so I'll have some sanding to keep me busy!

[GlennGP]

OK, I have the Yellow Peril back. Sounding pretty good, and there's a story here ... the guy doing the nut reckoned the frets needed levelling as well, so just went ahead and did it. So when the shop called to tell me it was ready, the quoted price for the work had more than doubled. :x However, the guy in the shop thought the luthier had spoken to me directly to get approval for the extra work (he hadn't), so stuck to the original quote. Good.

Anyway, I've noticed that the nut is pretty low, but the saddles are sitting pretty high, and I've still got the faintest of rattles on the G string. I guess I could stuff around with the truss rod to work out if I've got any room for play there, but I'm just enjoying having the thing in tune all the way up the neck! I think I'll wait to do any more adjustment.

So, the Yellow Peril is pretty much finished. I just have to change out the jack plug, apply the name to the headstock, pop in an orange drop on the tone pot ... hang on. Does it ever end? It really doesn't, does it? Like great art: never finished, merely abandoned.

[Gavin1393]

Quote from GlennGP on May 4, 2013, 15:53

Anyway, I've noticed that the nut is pretty low, but the saddles are sitting pretty high, and I've still got the faintest of rattles on the G string. I guess I could stuff around with the truss rod to work out if I've got any room for play there, but I'm just enjoying having the thing in tune all the way up the neck! I think I'll wait to do any more adjustment.

Don't fiddle with the truss rod now. If the frets have been levelled fiddling with the truss rod may just throw it all out of balance again. The truss rod fiddling is when you start off with a leveled neck and in time the neck goes out.....

Did the luthier ask you whether you play heavily of softly! Sometimes this can be the cause of a buzz because you are hitting the strings quite hard. The other thing could be that the g-string is seated too low in its grove in the nut and it rattling ...or that the grove was cut too low and now the string itself it buzzing against the frets