do you mean no relief or back bow?
If it is happening across several instruments you need to look at increase in humidity. I'm assuming you haven't changed string gauge on them all or similar?
Normally too much moisture. The f/b takes in moisture the back of the neck not so much. When wood takes on moisture it expands so in the case of a guitar neck the back of the neck is compressed.
The solution is to reduce moisture content or have it setup so that the guitar is balanced for that level of humidity by slightly slacking off the truss rod.
I'm pretty sure that my guitars had been exposed to a decrease in humidity when this happened. I don't understand it. They had been kept in a much cooler basement most of the time, which, while dry, isn't nearly as dry as where they are right now, which is also considerably warmer as well as drier. They also are on their sides in the cases now, whereas they are normally on end in their cases.
I just don't want to go adjusting them and then have problems when I take them back home to their old environment.
I just don't want to go adjusting them and then have problems when I take them back home to their old environment.
I know what you're saying must be true, but it's just that it doesn't fit with what I think is true of the environment. I will check the humidity in both places, though, just because it's bugging me that it's not making sense. I hate it when that happens.
Thanks, man.
No, I've just been staying with my mom, which is out of town, for a couple of months while she went through radiation. The guitars I took with me were all afflicted. And no, I drove (she's only an hour and a half away), so they didn't fly.
Right, Thing is that two houses on the same street can have two completely different micro climates. One has double glazing the other has wooden sashes. One has aircon and central heating while the other has ceiling fans and opn fires. You get the picture.She's fine, thanks.
Yeah, but I haven't been taking them back and forth, I just brought them and left them here.
So, what are you sayin'?The trick is to get all the VP crap out of the way and concentrate on how stuff behaves.
So, what are you sayin'?
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I'm disappointed that you failed to mention the possibility of the non-resonant qualities of the theoretical dead spots affecting the structure of the neck wood.
Thats strings dummy. Dead spots are for strings. Have you learned nothing.