Recent content by markuus99

@stratamania @Rick Found this. Had never heard of this phenomenon before, but now everything makes sense. Basically, looks like I cut the nut slot a bit too deep. I stuck a piece of paper in the nut slot as described in the video, and voila buzz is gone. Adding relief also eliminates the buzz...

@stratamania Actually ugh I spoke too soon. It seemed better, but the relief wasn't dialed in after taking the neck off and straightening it out to do the spot levels. After removing additional relief, the sound immediately came back. With more relief, the sound goes away, but I can't cleanly...

@stratamania I had changed strings when I tried better seating the bushings, which is also when this got worse. May change them again because the fabric wrappings of the strings around the tuning pegs has gotten a little ragged after removing and replacing the strings so many times.

@stratamania So I sort of kind of fixed it. I got out my fret rocker and found a couple of slightly high frets (3rd and 8th frets). I spot leveled those frets and the buzz is (mostly) gone. They weren’t very high- just a few passes with sandpaper on a block did it and then a quick recrown and...

Welp. I made a little tool to remove the bushings. I took 1" to 1.25" PVC pipe coupler, put some felt on the bottom, ran a 5/16" bolt through it with washers and a wingnut, and used a socket to push the bushing out from below. No problem. Just installed the new Hipshot tuners (and while they...

@stratamania Hipshot makes the Ultralite in two sizes, and the 1/2" post size fits a 11/16" headstock ream, so should be all good. https://hipshotproducts.com/products/hb6-1-2-ultralite-bass-tuning-machine The Hipshots cost a little more than those Schallers, but it looks like the light...

@Rick I think I'll do that. I was afraid the issue was in fact not the tuners at all, and I certainly don't want to buy and install the new tuners only to have the problem recur. But at this point I feel pretty confident that's what's going on.

@triple jim Knocking on the neck, I get a slight metallic ringing I can only hear if I'm close to headstock area. Seems to come from front of headstock. Here's a video of the rattle on the low Bb on the E string One theory I have is when I used the glue, some excess came to the surface of the...

@triple jim I don't either. That's what made me start to suspect the truss rod or stiffening rods, but listening close it really appears to be related to the tuners. @stratamania The interaction of tuner and bushing seems to track with what I'm hearing, but I'm unsure of how to address that if...

Well I’ve done some more listening and alternately removed tuners and I do think it’s tuner related. So that’s good. Only problem is the bushings are now so secure I can’t get them out. I’l have to get or make a little tool to help me. I’m unsure how to address if the bushing is the problem. I...

I dont have an MIM neck- this was a parts build using a Fender replacement body. So I think last thing that I haven’t ruled out on the headstock is the bushing itself, probably on the low E. The buzzing is worse playing Bb on the E string vs the Bb on the A string. The buzzing getting worse...

Having issues with a mystery buzz/rattle on my parts P-bass I built in 2021. (Warmoth neck, MIM Fender body). Some months ago, I started noticing a buzz/rattle just hitting a low F note on the first fret of the low E. I adjusted the truss rod and tried a few different amounts of relief but no...

Okay finally did this on the actual guitar. Something of an anticlimax, but I think I'm good, at least for now. I soaked a Q-Tip in thin super glue and wiped it on the inside of the pocket where the crack ends. I let it cure a while, scraped out the excess glue from the pocket with a razor...

@electric__steve From more Googling, it seems maybe unlikely that it would catch fire or burn your house down, but it definitely does get super hot, release fumes, and start smoking.

@Knorris So okay was trying out the q-tip thing (on scrap) and dipped one into super glue and IT STARTED SMOKING. Apparently superglue making cotton swabs combust is a known thing and people sometimes almost burn their house down doing this. Mine never caught fire thankfully. I soaked the q-tips...