Recent content by elwoodblues1

Actually the seller just answered some questions about its storage. 10 years in the case basically un-played, then 5-6 years on the wall untouched. (in that order)

In my situation, this guitar was hardly played at all. (I have put more scratches on it doing my work to it that it had when I bought it a few weeks ago) I think this guitar hung on the wall for years, untouched. There is a mark of where the hanger rested against the head stock. I am really...

The stew mac shim worked good. I wish I could have drilled the new holes better. The hole pattern that it came with did not match the PRS so I started with the smallest bit I had and kept working my way up with it clamped to another piece of wood. It split on me in a small areas leading to...

I shimmed the neck over the weekend. Was able to get this thing into a playable condition finally. It feels good and the action is down where it should be. I don't hear any difference in sustain or overall sound so I'm happy. Here are some pics of it. The second pic shows that with the low...

Here are PG rated nut pics.:) I do seem to have the right clearance on the first fret when I press on the 3rd... Let me know if these are not good. I tried a few shots. http://cubeupload.com/im/P2axIl.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/b2Iytk.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/zpQeSY.jpg...

Thanks again everyone for the ongoing discussion. I am stumped also. I happened to have pics already of the cavities. Everything matches. http://cubeupload.com/im/PFLibD.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/pFYVaQ.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/Gjasgz.jpg

Thanks AP515. I think I am just under 3/8" or about 9mm. http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/462IMG0623.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/IMG0613.jpg

Thanks again for the replies. Here are some more pics. Trem is on the body now. Action still high. I took some other pics of the neck attempting to show that it doesn't appear (to me anyway) to be completely messed up. The E strings are not quite the same distance from the outer edges of...

I seem to be struggling with the pictures. Here are links that hopefully work: http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/IMG0585.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/IMG0579.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/IMG0580.jpg http://cubeupload.com/im/elwoodblues1/IMG0578.jpg...

Here are some pics where I had the same action height before dropping the trem. I have basically the same too high action now with the trem on the body. I wanted to share these first since I had followed everything I could find prior to messing with it some more. Let me know what you think...

3rd post.

Thanks for the replies. I think I need to post twice more to upload pics. Here is 2nd post.

Hi, First post here. Normally, I can solve my issues with extensive searches but I am stuck on this one... I just picked up a 97 CE w/tremelo and I cannot get the action even close to normal. I think this guitar hung on the wall for roughly 16 years un-played at all. It was bought new in...