Robert Tee
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My 1986 custom 24 is generally extremely stable.
In recent weeks, however, the action has even getting a little higher. I assume because we are now in winter in the Northeast, with heated house and lower humidity.
Tried to adjust it myself this AM (studio date tomorrow) and am confused by varying result.
I turn the adjustment nut only slightly at a time with strings loosened.
No matter the direction i turn the nut, however, snark tuner shows the strings at higher pitch after a small adjustment either way.
Loosening the neck should lower pitch.
Now I'm not sure what's going on.
I've set up and adjusted my own guitars for decades, and have never seen this behavior before.
Question:
Can someone confirm which direction to turn the nut to raise action and which to lower on a PRS custom 24 of that vintage (probably any PRS would be the same on this)?
Sighting from the headstock toward the body and looking at the truss rod nut, I'm turning counter clockwise to raise action and clockwise to lower.
And as long as I'm posting, how much string buzz on the frets (low E especially) is considered acceptable? Seems raising the low E far enough to eliminate that would raise action overall unacceptably.
Thank you.
Robert
In recent weeks, however, the action has even getting a little higher. I assume because we are now in winter in the Northeast, with heated house and lower humidity.
Tried to adjust it myself this AM (studio date tomorrow) and am confused by varying result.
I turn the adjustment nut only slightly at a time with strings loosened.
No matter the direction i turn the nut, however, snark tuner shows the strings at higher pitch after a small adjustment either way.
Loosening the neck should lower pitch.
Now I'm not sure what's going on.
I've set up and adjusted my own guitars for decades, and have never seen this behavior before.
Question:
Can someone confirm which direction to turn the nut to raise action and which to lower on a PRS custom 24 of that vintage (probably any PRS would be the same on this)?
Sighting from the headstock toward the body and looking at the truss rod nut, I'm turning counter clockwise to raise action and clockwise to lower.
And as long as I'm posting, how much string buzz on the frets (low E especially) is considered acceptable? Seems raising the low E far enough to eliminate that would raise action overall unacceptably.
Thank you.
Robert