Another newbie set up question
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:24 pm
I'm not a total newbie when it comes to playing guitar, but when it comes to set up I just don't want to make things worse. I am too poor to buy a camera so the best that I can do is describe my situation and hopefully give a good enough visual description for someone to give me advice. Again, I apologize.
My high e string (high as in tone, the thin one) bridge saddle looks to be out of whack. I'm not quite sure how I didn't notice before but here is the issue; There are, as all of you know, two screws that adjust the saddle height. All of my saddles end up to be relatively even except for this one. The screw closest to me if I am playing is at a 'normal height' where the screw closest to the bottom of the fretboard is all the way loosened. In other words the saddle is extremely lopsided and I am thinking this might be part of the issue when I play the high e and its tendency to go off of the fretboard. Should I raise this one screw to even out the saddle, or was this how the guitar was set up to be the best it could? I realize that a picture would help alot, but hopefully my description will give a decent enough visual to understand my question.
My high e string (high as in tone, the thin one) bridge saddle looks to be out of whack. I'm not quite sure how I didn't notice before but here is the issue; There are, as all of you know, two screws that adjust the saddle height. All of my saddles end up to be relatively even except for this one. The screw closest to me if I am playing is at a 'normal height' where the screw closest to the bottom of the fretboard is all the way loosened. In other words the saddle is extremely lopsided and I am thinking this might be part of the issue when I play the high e and its tendency to go off of the fretboard. Should I raise this one screw to even out the saddle, or was this how the guitar was set up to be the best it could? I realize that a picture would help alot, but hopefully my description will give a decent enough visual to understand my question.