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Hi everyone. So I put a Duncan style treble bleed on my 58/15s LT and I can't roll the volume past 2 it literally switches the pick up off. Can I modify the treble bleed to improve the sweep on my volume pot and how? Using CTS 550K pots and I didn't wire the coil splits.

Hi everyone I have the same plans but unfortunately I don't trust guitar luthiers in my area. So I'm gonna have to do it my self. So anyone know what the caps or resistors that are wired to the tone pots of a McCarty 594 are? They look like something that would be inside an amp? Plus if I...

Hi everyone finally I fixed it !!!!!!! I am over the moon. Dressed the frets used an old nut that I cut as a mock up and I went up to 11's and no buzz. Ideally I would yank the frets out sand the fretboard straight and go from there but It works just fine have to intonate it but it seems like...

so I checked it again after I regained the courage to find out if my guitar is really gone for ever and if I decrease the relief below 0.9 mm I get space between the first fret and my straight edge. Not sure if that constitutes a warped neck or not but even at 0.9mm of relief I have high spots...

aaaaah buddy miss the states so so much haven't been there in about 10 years. Did part of my degree in Chicago when I was younger. A part of me wishes I can and I was thinking the exact same thing maybe I can do their tech course the one they give to their authorized repair guys learn how to...

bought the dvd and all the tools that's how I learned =) got plenty of blanks and I could always start over other then the back pain I actually enjoy doing it. oh and I live about 25000 km from the states so yeah shipping is expensive.

so the factory spec is 0.4-0.6 for the treble side and 0.5-0.7 mm for the bass side. I tried 0.7 to 0.6 increasing the action by 0.02 from the treble to the bass strings as the factory spec sheet suggests my bass side string won't play in tune at the first fret and the high e would still buzz...

I have no doubt I've talked to them a couple of times and I have absolutely no doubt that they can take care of this. I already found out it's gonna cost me something to tune of $1600 just to ship it one way. Then there are the horror stories you hear about shipping companies and guitars and...

seems like its the only option I have. The thing is its gonna cost me the price of a new core model and then I would probably tell them to refinish it and put stainless steel frets on it which is even more money. But yeah seems like it's my only option.

you are correct the the way I see it is relief is like fine tuning the action I like my neck to be dead straight if possible if not then with the least amount of relief possible never actually measured relief without string tension. Only way I can think off is to have equal amount of turns on...

That's not entirely correct it will not by much but it will affect the intonation at the first fret in fact it will affect the intonation on all the frets not just the 12th fret. My current action at the first fret is within factory spec the one other thing is the shape of the slot and I have no...

I would like to clarify that one guitar dose not mean that PRS Guitars are all bad I'm not saying that at all. Im a huge PRS fan I've been playing for almost 10 years and I've played a guitar that wasn't a PRS for about three months and gave that guitar away and bought my first PRS an se custom...

you won't see it on a video but neck feels like its made out of rubber if I move it will wobble I can feel it and it sounds like someone is leaning on a tremolo arm. As for the intonation if you loosen the truss rod to raise the action and to get rid of the buzz the bridge dosen't have enough...

It's an S2 so they don't come with bone nuts and bone makes a huge difference to tone and sustain; and any nut that is not cut properly will make the string sound dead or buzzy regardless of the material.

The more I think of it the more I'm convinced that I probably bought the only dud PRS made that year. I had the same issue with it brand new it won't intonate and the action was too high all over; and if I tried to lower it, it would buzz. The strings felt too loose and the neck would bend...