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DIY: How to Adjust Your Guitar's Neck Relief & Truss Rod-Plus, Fix Your Action | Helmer’s How-Tos

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In the second episode of our Helmer’s How-Tos DIY series, expert luthier Dave Helmer shows you how to keep notes sweet by adjusting the truss rod to improve your guitar’s neck relief (don't worry, you won 't break it), or by raising or lowering action on the fretboard. For the best results, a string action gauge will come in handy.
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@premierguitar Год назад

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@demonrouge3338 Год назад

I want to add that your conversational approach is so much easier to follow that a lot of videos where the speaker is taking forever to make simple important points. I appreciate your way of doing this a whole lot. 👍👍

@tbone25 Год назад

Great video and explanations! So many videos fail to explain the concepts or provide the specs that they are adjusting to. The bending ruler for relief and the tape roll for radius were very clever props that conveyed the concepts perfectly! You also noted the fret numbers and specs for your action height. Very much appreciated. Thanks!

@kalle3940 9 месяцев назад

YOOO THIS FIXED MY GUITAR!!!!! ULTRA THANK YOU!

@premierguitar 9 месяцев назад

Glad I could help!

@kalle3940 9 месяцев назад

@@premierguitar Thank you again. You made a shitty day a lot better!

@JustRockMySoul Год назад

Instead of just going "back and forth between relief and action", it's best to remember the acronym "T.R.A.I.N." mentioned by Ron Thorn. Tune first, then set the Relief aka adjusting the Rod, then set the Action, check the Intonation, Noodle for a bit. Repeat those steps until satisfied. Satisfied meaning that you can leave out steps 1-4 and go straight to playing with your strings being the desired height, enough relief not to touch frets higher up, and the intonation being as consistent as possible throughout the fretboard. This all also changes when you switch string gauges and you will want to give it a full setup.

@lafayetterailroad Месяц назад

Fantastic job at explianing the dark arts of setting up your guitar. I followed your instruction and immediately improved my Tele Player. The neck was kinda' over scalloped and causing problems. No longer. Rock on!

@James-mz7tv 5 месяцев назад

I watched this forever ago, it was super helpful then, and for a freakin WEEK I've been looking everywhere on youtube trying to find it again, so I finally remembered that I just happened to accidentally screenshot last year when watching it, but then there was no title or anything because it was a thumbnail! But. I finally found ya. Phew. This is the best and clearest video on this shit on RU-vid man. I watched about a hundred others trying to find this again. I will subscribe so it doesn't happen again.

@premierguitar 5 месяцев назад

Bookmark this video ASAP, JAMES!

@stancoleshill8925 Год назад

First , I discovered doing this with bicycles when I was young, then I moved to motorcycles and cars, I retired and built my own computer and it still works great, now I am setting up my guitars and discovering what I have missed. One day we will get back into the N scale model railroading.

@DougHinVA Год назад

Truss rods are adjusted maybe 1/8 turn at a time. Clockwise (tighter) makes the neck flatten out or bow backward. Counter-clockwise (looser) makes the neck bow forward (cupping and adding relief). 1/8 turn is plenty at a time and allow a bit of time with strings at full tension to see the result.

@Hell_Inc Год назад

best video about guitar setup I’ve ever seen

@78tag 5 месяцев назад

Well done - saving this to my favorites for future reference. Thanks Dave.

@garygimbel5022 Год назад

Good stuff Dave - you’re a natural !!

@revolution51 7 месяцев назад

Didn't know it, but this is the vid I have been looking for. My guitar: 2004 Ibanez AG85-TRD (hollow body) Same upper register problem. Thanks for the upload.!

@JESSEPINKMAN74 9 месяцев назад

Watched this video and was able to solve the buzzing on my new Squier Starcaster, thanks so much!

@stevekirkby6570 3 месяца назад

About the best tutorial I have found on this subject. Thanks :)

@user-ql1pc7pi9x Год назад

Very helpful. Thank you 👍

@jesserothhammer7378 Год назад

Great value Jack Black

@jimmypennell8831 10 месяцев назад

Really good video. I have checked out a few. Probably the best explanation and examples I've seen.

@demonrouge3338 Год назад

I’m following you. I’ve watched dozens of neck, relief, videos, and you’re the only one who use that straight edge to explain. In two seconds, you made it crystal clear. That’s how I know you know what you’re doing ha ha. I got my telecaster neck perfect and it makes playing so much easier when you’re not fighting the buzz.

@loupascarelli 6 месяцев назад

THANKS , DAVE !

@thejuggernaut5327 Год назад

Great video , thanks!

@michael_caz_nyc Год назад

Great information clearly demonstrated & explained. I do all-my-own work, and enjoy learning tips & tricks. This was a master-class. Awesome job. Enjoyed it.

@icecreamforcrowhurst 10 месяцев назад

That string winder is next level.

@GenericSpace Год назад

Very cool vid. I really like that this dude suggested buying a cheap P.O.S. to practice working on. That's exactly what I did by buying a $60 Rogue acoustic.

@nikismile123 6 месяцев назад

very helpful indeed, thank you!

@vintagetubeamplifiers Год назад

Great video. What string winder is that?

@chocolatecookie8571 Год назад

I watched many setup video’s, read many articles, bought severals tools, adjusted many guitars with different bridges and still I cannot manage to setup my guitar properly 😅. It is not so easy as it looks like. So many factors to keep in mind. But one thing I found out is that the fretwork is the main problem most of the time.

@Stratsrule 6 месяцев назад

Like the may you get things across. Ty it helped me!!

@LiamEserda Год назад

Thank you,very well explained and demonstrated! Is too much relief the same as what is called underbow?

@slpc30 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video it's very helpful

@dritt-drittpaniagua739 8 месяцев назад

Way cool...I see I did it wrong! Great video. Thank you

@Robotsg1 8 месяцев назад

Nice Video!! Thank you!!

@TheDeedeeFiles Год назад

Awesome video. Really helpful

@R1GAMBLER Год назад

thanks Dave!

@jimmiphaze5785 Месяц назад

That's assuming if next are straight when encountering next with twist it's a whole different ball game then you have to know how to straighten wood with heat

@user-zj1ms4fp5r 11 месяцев назад

Thank you great help

@HEMI_426 11 месяцев назад

Really nice video. Informative. But what if you adjust the neck properly on type of guitar that has a telecaster type bridge, and the saddles go as high as they can? Do you shim the bridge itself? (Raise it) thank you!!

@texasbootlegger3752 Год назад

Excellent video! What color is the Gibson?

@TheRealTburt 6 месяцев назад

I noticed that my high e string takes a lot of pressure to push down. Is that normal? What should I do? Also, a few years ago, the string saddle was pulled up out from the body. I tightened the screws inside the string compartment to make it flat again. I'm not sure if it changed anything when I did that.

@fatbabyparker2438 Год назад

nice 👍👍

@Negotiator23 Год назад

Great video

@EMWoodworking Год назад

Have a new MIM Tele Player. Have had to adjust the neck twice now due to weather changes. Had an 83 MIM reissue 52 never had to adjust the neck.

@bobravenscraft5376 3 месяца назад

Only go by hi and lo E. For truss on Gibson styles

@HeftyPeach9 Месяц назад

I got a second hand electric guitar yesterday and all the metal strings on it make a really loud buzzing noise and for the low e string the buzz on the first 3 threts is louder than the actual sound it should make is this what’s causing the issue or not because i dont want to start twisting things to find out it had nothing to do with it

@sergiomartinez5946 Год назад

Do heavy strings tuned to standard tuning naturally have higher action? I'm having trouble differentiating between my truss rod adjustment and action. Should I set my bridge height to be in the middle and adjust the truss rod from there?