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Warbling sound

victor

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Hello folks, I bought a player strat and took out the electronics and bought a Seth Lover pickup and a one pickup pickguard (neck), ordered a Warmoth neck with a super wide nut with SS small vintage frets and put it all together and it sounds great! I play fingerstyle so never really strumming. I already posted a thread about the neck being low because I had to drill 2 holes, one on each side of the pickup cavity to get the pickup brackets low enough to lower the pickup to get the proper clearance from the strings. So I did and the pickup is still slightly below the mounting ring and everything is adjusted properly and the saddles are really close to bottoming out especially the two e strings. It has a 9 inch fretboard radius so everything between the 2 e"s gets higher. So all is good but last night I was playing and I decided to strum a little (something I don't do often) and got this warbling from like the a string and low e with possibly a little d in the mix so I decided I'd shim the neck and get it back up there and I put a 1 degree shim in and it was off the charts too high (it's amazing how a not so thick shim can make such a big difference!!) so I replaced it with the other shim I had which is .025 or maybe .25 anyway now my saddles are in normal adjustment range and I can bring my pickup out of hiding a little but still have the warbling no matter how low I go with the pickup. I'm talking lowwww!!! So what can I do now? Anybody run into this before? It only happens when I strum all the strings kinda hard but just plucking each single string hard didn't affect it. Also it looks like the allen screws on 2 of my saddles are a little shorter than the allen screws on the other 4 I bet those go on the 2 e strings. I tried to send pics but it said files too large do maybe I'll send them separately. 🤔 Thanks for any feedback. 🎸
 
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Boy the neck looks tight against the pickguard. Maybe more pics? Where is the shim placed? Also, you can order new height adgustment screws for the saddle in various lengths so your hand isn't chewed up.
 
plus 1 on the grub screws ...
Do you think the warble could be from a non-electronic source, like sympathetic vibration in the springs?
 
Try tuning down 1/2 to 1 full step and see if that helps. I have one that sounds bad at standard tuning but great 1/2 step down. Also not sure if the pickguard warping up off the body in your picture could have anything to do with it. Just an observation. Good luck!
 
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