Little help with excessive backbow, or 'warp'?

[formula73]

I pulled out all my Vs for a crappy pic I, and it led to me putting the L350s in my Bacchus BFV-58. I always noticed it could be kind of buzzy, but it's only been within the last 2 years that I stopped taking my guitars to the local shop for setups. I guess inexperience is the source of my problem. It's buzzy at the bottom 2/3 of the neck, and looking at it shows a *hair* of a backbow, even with the truss rod nut backed off all the way. Does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 10-46.

BTW: the L350s sound MUCH better than I thought they did when they were in my Dean Flame ML. Despite the included wiring diagram, my wife's guitar teacher couldn't wire the things up to save his life. I guess if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself

[BCR Greg]

The only thing that you can do is have a tech recut the fret slots a bit wider and reinstall the frets with epoxy. This will allow more fretboard compression under tension, and correct the overbow.

[formula73]

[silentman]

You might try moving up to 11's. That will put some tension on the neck and pull it forward a bit.

[formula73]

Oh well. I figure I'll probably just play it as-is as it's not all that bad, and then drop it off for a refret later on this year. It's got those teensy-weensy vintagey frets anyway. Thanks guys.

[Guitarseh]

I pulled out all my Vs for a crappy pic I, and it led to me putting the L350s in my Bacchus BFV-58. I always noticed it could be kind of buzzy, but it's only been within the last 2 years that I stopped taking my guitars to the local shop for setups. I guess inexperience is the source of my problem. It's buzzy at the bottom 2/3 of the neck, and looking at it shows a *hair* of a backbow, even with the truss rod nut backed off all the way. Does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 10-46.

BTW: the L350s sound MUCH better than I thought they did when they were in my Dean Flame ML. Despite the included wiring diagram, my wife's guitar teacher couldn't wire the things up to save his life. I guess if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself

I only ask this as someone who has in a brain fog actually done it wrong--are you sure you turned the truss rod nut the right way? Worth double checking before doing something drastic or expensive.

MarkB

[formula73]

I pulled out all my Vs for a crappy pic I, and it led to me putting the L350s in my Bacchus BFV-58. I always noticed it could be kind of buzzy, but it's only been within the last 2 years that I stopped taking my guitars to the local shop for setups. I guess inexperience is the source of my problem. It's buzzy at the bottom 2/3 of the neck, and looking at it shows a *hair* of a backbow, even with the truss rod nut backed off all the way. Does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 10-46.

BTW: the L350s sound MUCH better than I thought they did when they were in my Dean Flame ML. Despite the included wiring diagram, my wife's guitar teacher couldn't wire the things up to save his life. I guess if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself

I only ask this as someone who has in a brain fog actually done it wrong--are you sure you turned the truss rod nut the right way? Worth double checking before doing something drastic or expensive.

MarkB

You're actually not the first person to ask me that, but have no fear, it's pretty obvious that it's backed off. It's the Hamer/Gibson/Dean USA style with the exposed nut (even the same size, despite the Jap manufacture, and cleaner than my Gibsons ) and I backed it off far enough to fit my fingernail in the gap. It's actually been cooperating, if only a little bit-the neck is at least arrow-straight now, and that's a step in the right direction.

[kurtsstuff]

Just put it under the matress face up and sleep on it for about a week

You'll be allright.....