Re: 4/5 string bass

["Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

with my 6'er i didn't have to change the nut, but don't remember if i
needed to reset the trussrod...i actually got it from a local friend
(who is also on LD) and he said he didn't get a new nut (and i agree'd
it didn't need it) but i don't recall what he said about the
trussrod...either way, its not hard to do yourself, all you need is an
allen wrench and the self-confidence to believe that you won't snap
the neck! :)
anyways no more than a quarter turn per day is what i was told was the
rule of thumb, and it worked well for me :)

thoeretically this whole project should only cost you the price of a
new string (and an allen wrench if you don't have one)

Charlie



On 5/8/06, Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk> wrote:
> Exactly, that's pretty much what I meant - I *might* be able to adjust
> the truss-rod myself ( I think it's truss-rod*S* on this bass, though),
> but narrowing the nut-slots usually means getting a new one put in,
> glued and filed, if I recall correctly. That means taking the bass to
> the shop-> a lot more expensive.
>
> andreas.
>
> ditch wrestler wrote:
> > There might be several things that would need to be adjusted when going
> > for string tuning or guages that the bass wasn't set-up for.  The main
> > two are
> >
> > - truss rod as different tunings will put the neck under different 
>tension
> > - the slots in the nut may need to be widened or narrowed depending on
> > the diameter of the strings
> >
> >
> > ted harms.
> >
> >
> > */Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>/* wrote:
> >
> >     Charlie, I currently use my regularly tuned 6-string, and I'm quite
> >     clueless to these weird tunings- are the F strings readily 
>available?
> >     hell, is it just a guitar-string? ;) Also, I'd need to have 
>alterations
> >     made in a shop, right?
> >
> >     Andreas
> >
> >
> > 
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