Do you do your own setups?

[Derelict78]

Anyone else have neck tilt? It helps but is also a pain in my ass.

[echodeluxe]

yeah, ive been setting up my own stuff for years. i refuse to pay for it.

ive recently become interested in learning fretwork. im gonna try doing a file and crown on my tele once i get the tools i need.

[warwick.hoy]

Anyone else have neck tilt? It helps but is also a pain in my ass.

My Tele Deluxe RI has a micro tilt adjustment (if that is what you mean). I guess Fender used micro tilt to make it more Gibson LP like.

I inquired with the guy that did the setup on it and he said that bottoming out the micro tilt is par for the course so I just rolled with that.

[Holy Schnikes]

Anyone else have neck tilt? It helps but is also a pain in my ass.

My Tele Deluxe RI has a micro tilt adjustment (if that is what you mean). I guess Fender used micro tilt to make it more Gibson LP like.

I inquired with the guy that did the setup on it and he said that bottoming out the micro tilt is par for the course so I just rolled with that.

Is the neck tilt there to avoid shimming or do those have nothing to do with one another?

yeah, ive been setting up my own stuff for years. i refuse to pay for it.

ive recently become interested in learning fretwork. im gonna try doing a file and crown on my tele once i get the tools i need.

Yeah, fretwork will be my next step in setup mastery as well. Fingers crossed it goes well, seems easy enough.....(famous last words)

[Noise...]

Yep - I pretty much always have. It's easy enough, and I get them set just the way I like it.

[AxAxSxS]

Tilt is there in lieu of shimming.

[Derelict78]

Yup it's a hex in a hole in the neck plate, adjusts the angle of the neck. According to the T-40's instructions it should be used first for gross string height adjustment than the saddles for fine.

[Andrew]

I don't like doing full setups, I always do the smaller adjusting jobs myself and fix up the bridge/action to how I like it. I am kind of afraid of messing around with Truss Rods, but if the guitar plays okay then I'm happy to do the rest myself. I should learn how to swap pickups, but I hardly replace them anyway.

[kbit]

The nick tilt on the T-40 is literally just a screw attached to the neck drilling into / pressing against the body to create more of an angle. It's puzzling to me.

[Derelict78]

Like I said its a pain in the ass BUT my t-40's action is super low, fast and no buzzing

[AlexanderWOLF]

Never have done truss rod should probably do it on my SG

[Mute Swan]

Yes. I decided to teach myself how to when I started to get into using lower tunings. I never really liked how my instruments played after the few times I payed for them. So when I decided to tune down, I decided to learn to do a setup myself. Haven't paid for one since and now I can set everything to whats best for me.

[Swordfishtrombone]

I do pretty much all of my mods and set ups myself. Only one I haven't done is when I had a tailpiece added to my jaguar, and that's only because I have shaky hands and I don't trust myself with making sure I'd get the holes where they need to go so it would be straight. I just had my dad do that tho.

And Truss rod adjustments aren't too bad in my experience. Just do small turns stretched out over a short period of time and see how it feels before doing any more and you should be fine.

[pigmaker]

Yes. I decided to teach myself how to when I started to get into using lower tunings. I never really liked how my instruments played after the few times I payed for them. So when I decided to tune down, I decided to learn to do a setup myself. Haven't paid for one since and now I can set everything to whats best for me.

Yeh i use 11s and tune down a step so a stock setup aint gonna work for that

plus i like my low e string (well, low d, techincally) just a liiiittle bit buzzy and only i can do that shit right!

[bigchiefbc]

Well I guess I'm the only lame-ass here that doesn't do set-ups. I literally have no freaking idea what I'm doing when it comes to stuff like that. The problem is that even the tutorials assume that you know what you want, in terms of string height and neck relief and such. But I don't even know what string height or neck relief would be best for my playing style.