string help

cena

i have made a strat for my leaving cert. the other day I started to put the first string [e] the. When I started to tune it i noticed that the string wasn't going on right. the string wasn't touching any of the frets below the the fifth fret it was going away from the neck, if you know what i mine. Is there their anything that I can do to fix problem. keep mind that the examinor is coming to the school on monday

feylya

What do you mean by not touching the frets? Can you take a photo of it? Is the string hitting the frets above 5 (ie 5-22)?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

I'm pretty sure the string shouldn't actually be touching the frets. It only touches the frets when you press down on it...sorry to state the obvious

cena

no the string is going over the fifth to the 22 fret at all.

feylya

Sorry, but I don't understand...

Ancient1

cena wrote:

i have made a strat for my leaving cert.

Uh, run that by me again.......?

cena wrote:

i have made a strat for my leaving cert.

You tell that examiner of yours to leave you alone - I will give you a job.

feylya

Down boy!

Johnny Storm

Ancient1 wrote:

Uh, run that by me again.......?



You tell that examiner of yours to leave you alone - I will give you a job.

The leaving cert isn't what it used to be, it seems....;)

parasite

i think he means that the string is off the edge of the neck after the fifth fret

feylya

AH! What is the low E string like? Can you take a photo of it?

david

Sounds like you didnt line up the bridge/neck properly tbh. Or routed the neck pocket inaccurately. If so, all you can do is reposition the bridge and do your best to plug up the holes, this is a big problem obviously if you used a strat trem

cena

Here is a photo of the position the string is in. It's pretty much what I've tried to explain to you. Sorry for the confusion

feylya

Take a picture of your bridge

Doctor J

Does the string come out of the bridge and go around the volume knob by any chance?

sei046

lol and which bit did you make?

feylya

sei046 wrote:

lol and which bit did you make?

Ah, no need for that. I know a few people that made guitars for their Leaving Cert.

sei046

a friend of mine just made one aswell. An explorer or something i think. Hell of a job to take on!

Eoin Madsen

sei046 wrote:

lol and which bit did you make?

I guessing some of that grime around the frets at least.

david

If you just made that guitar, how did it get so much playing wear with a neck like that?

Doctor J

The bridge is the key here. I will be very surprised if this isn't a piss take.

david

Has to be a piss take. Nobody's that stoopid

feylya

freakonaleashx wrote:

If you just made that guitar, how did it get so much playing wear with a neck like that?

He may have taken the fretboard from another guitar?

david

The body is scratched and has playing wear too

Doctor J

The base of the neck is rather irregular shaped, but until we see the bridge this is a load of bollox tbh

cena

this isn't any piss take. that picture was taken from a strat that i brought. i was just showing ye what i was going on about. as the guitar is in school i can't take any picture of the bridge.

Doctor J

What is the string coming out of? Why is it so far away from the other strings at the bridge?

Ancient1

that picture was taken from a strat that i brought.

I thought you made one, man!

??

Are you trying to say that's a stock pic? If that is the case, what's with the string?

Creamy Goodness

Ancient1 wrote:

I thought you made one, man!

??

Are you trying to say that's a stock pic? If that is the case, what's with the string?

no he's trying to imitate the problem on a strat that he has at home, as with the wood work project they have to be left in the school so they know you didn't get any outside help or you just didn't buy everything off warmoth or something like that and assembled yourself

Ancient1

Ah, now I geddit. (just got home from a work "meeting")

Doctor J

Cremo wrote:

no he's trying to imitate the problem on a strat that he has at home

Ah right that makes a bit more sense.

If all the strings are off centre you can do two things really. Either 1-reset the neck more in the direction of the bass strings which will align all of the strings more towards the centre of the neck or, 2-if the neck pocket is correct, move the bridge towards the bass side.

cena

i thought that was wrong that the bridge was more over to the treble side. Thanks for the help doctor j