ido1957
9K Gold Member
I took my 2014 LPC to the shop for a tune up. I had taken it in when I first got it but it was never right.
Pinging, sticking, going sharp when bending, impossible to play open chords.
(You'd think a 4500 guitar would be perfect and/or the first setup would have fixed that lol)
Can't tell you how disappointed I was - never had this problem with my strats.
So after looking on google and YT I found it probably needed a nut job.
Got it back this afternoon and the thing plays PERFECTLY, and I'm very very pleased.
Played for several hours and other than a slightly flat string from stretching the shit of them it plays just right.
The guy did a bunch of stuff to the nut including angling it towards the string trees, maybe deepening (not sure). His handwriting is like a doctor's and he wasn't there when I picked it up. Was it the same repair guy? Not sure.
Also said all sorts of things were loose and out of whack (screws pickups etc etc) and it had rattles.
I actually thought the B string nut slot was rattling - thank god it wasn't that. Just a pickup.
Anyway I'm very happy and 105 bucks lighter. No - I never setup my own guitars so I didn't fix it myself.
My experience is that once it's setup properly (for me) it needs no work for years.
Pinging, sticking, going sharp when bending, impossible to play open chords.
(You'd think a 4500 guitar would be perfect and/or the first setup would have fixed that lol)
Can't tell you how disappointed I was - never had this problem with my strats.
So after looking on google and YT I found it probably needed a nut job.
Got it back this afternoon and the thing plays PERFECTLY, and I'm very very pleased.
Played for several hours and other than a slightly flat string from stretching the shit of them it plays just right.
The guy did a bunch of stuff to the nut including angling it towards the string trees, maybe deepening (not sure). His handwriting is like a doctor's and he wasn't there when I picked it up. Was it the same repair guy? Not sure.
Also said all sorts of things were loose and out of whack (screws pickups etc etc) and it had rattles.
I actually thought the B string nut slot was rattling - thank god it wasn't that. Just a pickup.
Anyway I'm very happy and 105 bucks lighter. No - I never setup my own guitars so I didn't fix it myself.
My experience is that once it's setup properly (for me) it needs no work for years.