But it's a good starting point.Īnd I would tend to use the 1st and 18th, not the 22nd, frets to check relief. I always treat each neck and each player's preference individually. Span three frets to see if the card 'rocks' over either a high fret, or down onto a low fret. If you don't have one, you can use something hard with a straight edge like a credit card. Once you have the relief set and the action set, if you still have buzz, then check for high frets with a fret rocker. Then you will probably have to raise the bridge to get your preferred action again. And, sometimes necks will take a few hours to respond fully to a truss rod adjust. This helps the neck towards straightening, sometimes the wood can be a little reluctant to follow the truss rod. After a quarter turn, sit the guitar on your lap, push against the base of the neck with your left hand and the fretboard at the first fret with your right. Don't try to do the whole relief adjustment all in a single turn of the truss rod. Try a quarter turn clockwise on the truss rod first, but with as much relief as you reported, 2/64', it will probably need more. If you don't have feeler gauges, use a piece of a top E string. So even before checking for a high fret causing the buzz, I would suggest getting the relief down to between. Relief tends to be deepest around the 9th fret. James, you say your relief is where it is supposed to be but that is way too much. PeterOeh, James was measuring relief, not action.

Buzzing past 12th fret