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I have a setup issue. It is a problem with the neck angle in relation to the body not allowing enough range of adjustment for an optimum setup.
I have a 2012 Custom 24. Currently, the bridge is decked both front and back (all four corners). The low and high E saddles are as low as they can get on the bridge plate. They are almost bottomed out.
This achieves a string height of from 5/64” to 4/64”, low E to high e measured at the 12th fret with relief at 0.006” at the eighth fret. This is not ideal but it works. It would be nice to have some room for adjustment. In other words the setup (string height) is as low as it can get.
Because of this neck angle the strings are very low over the playing area. Even with the pickups lowered flush to the pickup rings the strings are too low over the pickups.
The problem is that I can’t get the pickups adjusted low enough, even with new pickup adjusting screws that are longer than standard. I bought some (longer than stock) 1-1/2” long pickup adjustment screws and had to cut them down to about 1-1/4” in order to fit into the maximum depth of the pickup cavity. Even with this the pickups are still set higher than I would like them to be. One solution would be to make the depth of the pickup rout deeper, but I don’t want to do that.
Pickup height measurements (bottom of string to top of pickup bobbin):
Neck Pickup bass side: 4/64”
Neck Pickup treble side: 3/64"
Bridge Pickup neck side: 5/64”
Bridge pickup treble side: 5/64"
That’s my issue. If this was a bolt-on neck it could be easily fixed with a shim. Not the case here.
Any ideas on how to address this? Thank you.
I have a 2012 Custom 24. Currently, the bridge is decked both front and back (all four corners). The low and high E saddles are as low as they can get on the bridge plate. They are almost bottomed out.
This achieves a string height of from 5/64” to 4/64”, low E to high e measured at the 12th fret with relief at 0.006” at the eighth fret. This is not ideal but it works. It would be nice to have some room for adjustment. In other words the setup (string height) is as low as it can get.
Because of this neck angle the strings are very low over the playing area. Even with the pickups lowered flush to the pickup rings the strings are too low over the pickups.
The problem is that I can’t get the pickups adjusted low enough, even with new pickup adjusting screws that are longer than standard. I bought some (longer than stock) 1-1/2” long pickup adjustment screws and had to cut them down to about 1-1/4” in order to fit into the maximum depth of the pickup cavity. Even with this the pickups are still set higher than I would like them to be. One solution would be to make the depth of the pickup rout deeper, but I don’t want to do that.
Pickup height measurements (bottom of string to top of pickup bobbin):
Neck Pickup bass side: 4/64”
Neck Pickup treble side: 3/64"
Bridge Pickup neck side: 5/64”
Bridge pickup treble side: 5/64"
That’s my issue. If this was a bolt-on neck it could be easily fixed with a shim. Not the case here.
Any ideas on how to address this? Thank you.
