String Height and General Setuo

[Eugen_onegin]

Details first...
Body - Roasted Swamp Ash (1piece)
Neck&FB - Roasted Flame Maple
Bridge - Gotoh 510
Pickups - Seymour Duncan Jazz/JB

Looking for some advice on my setup. When I first slapped the neck on and strung it up, with a very high bone nut, I quickly realized as I went up past the 12th fret I was buzzing and then totally buzzing out as I went higher. Some quick tweaking and raising the bridge studs helped but I'm still hearing some faint buzz. I've lowered the nut but we all know the upper fret buzz has zero to do with the nut height. Is it generally expected to have the bridge studs fairly elevated? If I went higher I'm sure it would resolve the buzzing but I would rather not. Maybe im overthinking this part...

That leads me to, do I need to remove material from either the neck or body at the joint if I dont want to raise the bridge? That seems crazy though.

Thoughts?

 

[rockandroller]

Maybe shim the neck slightly to get a little "fall off" from the upper fretboard?

 

[NedRyerson]

How's your relief?

 

[Strat Avenger]

1: The frets need to be level.
2: The neck relief needs to be properly adjusted.
3: The nut slots need to be filed to the proper depth (and width for string gauge).
4: String height needs to be set to a minimum height of 4/64" @ the 12th fret.

If the problem persists after all those things are proper, the neck angle would need adjusted.

 

[PatrickWD]

The frets on necks from Warmoth has not been leveled, so if you haven't done that yet, you would probably have some buzzing no matter the setup. My Warmoth neck had some high frets when i got it, so i had my luthier do the frets for me. That did all the difference.

 

[Spud]

Maybe shim the neck slightly to get a little "fall off" from the upper fretboard?

maybe create fall off by taking the 14 th and above frets down a skosh

 

[Strat Avenger]

maybe create fall off by taking the 14 th and above frets down a skosh

If that is done, all the frets above 13 will be the same note.

 

[Spud]

If that is done, all the frets above 13 will be the same note.

Not true.

 

[db82]

I'm with NedRyerson and Strat Avenger's #2 - check your relief. When initially setting up I also frequently do the "capo on 1" trick to remove the nut from the equation, and then only after everything else starts to fall into place would I start filing the nut.