วันจันทร์ที่ 27 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2555

How to adjust the Truss rod of your acoustic guitar ?

First of All
Checking Neck Relief

You can use long ruler with a straightedge placed between     
If that ruler far out of the center of the neck.

It will be alright if it far a little bit

So what happen if opposite
Your guitar can play easier but maybe it make your guitar
Measure the gap between the string and top of 7th fret


You have 2 ways to check your guitar neck.


1 ) Checking Relief With a Straightedge
the D and G strings, so you can see that. 
The largest or Smallest gap is usually towards the 
center of the neck.

It will make you to hold fret with more strength and 
It make you fell pain when you play it too long.

have some buzz sound 
(Ugly sound by string swang strike your guitar neck)

2 ) Checking Relief Using The Strings

Fret the string on 1st and last fret of the neck

It up to you... Up to your style to play guitar.
But if you like to strumming you must make neck relief 
much more 0.2 mm at 7th fret to protect buzz sound 
when you are strumming to heavy
For Fingerstyle you will make your guitar neck gap smaller
to play it easier so you must use larger string gauge too. 

So.. How to adjust the Truss rod
Locating The Adjustment Nut

Some guitars it will be at peghead.
Some guitars it will be at the heel.




We use wrench to turn the truss rod.
Basically, when you buy a guitar.
Be supplied, but if not, you may have to go to the hardware store to buy the building.
Or in-store sales of construction equipment / tools, 
The think to be careful 
rotation for Truss rod adjusted to gently twist the neck is 
1/4, bit by bit, if you're too impatient to  rotate ,
you are try to kill Truss rod.



                Truss rod rotation and results.
If Truss rod is straight your guitar neck will straight too .
This is features of Truss rod with curved or bent up.
If the Truss rod is rotated from left to right.(Clockwise move).
Guitar neck, it will freeze up, the result is the " bent up " 
or "curve" up.
The results of Truss rod adjusted in this manner will 
make your guitar easier to play the left hand. 
Because the neck bent up with the strings.
Especially during the action of the neck at central 
so it make your strings height = Low



This is features of Truss rod with bent down.
If Truss rod is rotated from right to left.

(As opposed to clockwise).
Guitar neck is lowered, we may call this condition as 

"the guitar neck  bent down".
The results of Truss rod adjustment in this way will 

make it more difficult to play left hand.
Especially since the mid-neck, neck bowed out of 

the guitar string.
so it make your strings height = high

* If truss Rod Position is peghead
  you must turn it opposite. 

The Best Action is

Action to make your play more flexible easy to move your fingers.
Action that does not make you feel my fingers or wrist pain.

This is only way to adjust your guitar neck
                        

How to setup your acoustic guitar ?

I'm sorry If you can't understand all of this dialog information.English isn't my 1st language. 
I try to type this with the best of me.


Have you ever wondered why the action of acoustic guitar must 
be setup after you buy it?


Some brand of guitar make there guitar action really high 
but some are lower.
Why don't they make there guitar with the best guitar action 
for us ?

Because some people like to play with high action.
(If the action is high It will make your guitar sound better.)
But some like to play with low action.
(So the low action will kill your guitar sound.)


So.... Before you ready to edit your guitar , you must have some equipment

Sand Paper
Hex key Set
and some house wood worker tools.Now you are ready to work !!


For now
I have some solution about the best action of your guitar 
without lose your guitar tone.
Press this link to see how ->

For the beginner
What is setup ? 
What you must do for your guitar ?
Click Here ->
How to adjust truss-rod