allthumbs
Active member
Hello all,
A couple months ago I purchased an 82' Love Rock Custom. This is the first non-Fender guitar I've owned and I'm trying to sort out the ideal bridge and tailpiece settings. When I got the guitar the tailpiece was adjusted tight to the body and the bridge was quite low but I found that the first string had a tendancy to fret-out when bending above the twelfth fret. I tried raising the bridge but then noticed that the strings were catching on the back of the bridge - so I raised the tailpiece til they were clear. Now both appear to be un-naturally high off the body and there is still a bit of fretting out.
Is this common with this style of bridge/tailpiece? Or, do I have some other problem (I see no abnormally high frets)?
How high can you safely raise these pieces and does it really matter if the strings bind a bit on the back of the bridge?
Thanks,
Chris
A couple months ago I purchased an 82' Love Rock Custom. This is the first non-Fender guitar I've owned and I'm trying to sort out the ideal bridge and tailpiece settings. When I got the guitar the tailpiece was adjusted tight to the body and the bridge was quite low but I found that the first string had a tendancy to fret-out when bending above the twelfth fret. I tried raising the bridge but then noticed that the strings were catching on the back of the bridge - so I raised the tailpiece til they were clear. Now both appear to be un-naturally high off the body and there is still a bit of fretting out.
Is this common with this style of bridge/tailpiece? Or, do I have some other problem (I see no abnormally high frets)?
How high can you safely raise these pieces and does it really matter if the strings bind a bit on the back of the bridge?
Thanks,
Chris