String buzzing

[PDP]

I recently purchased a Breedlove acoustic, 300 bucks.
Lately I've started getting some fret buzz, So I loosened the neck because it seems very flat. It helped a little but not much. When I really crank the trus in the loosening direction it opens a space at about the 7th fret, but it actually looks like the neck begins to incline again towards the bridge ( the highest fret closer to the string than the 7th)

Any Ideas ?

Raise the bridge ? Actions pretty high already.

 

[Treeline]

How's the humidity at your place? Low humidity will make the guitar dry out and that will mess with the string action. And also - farting around like that with the truss rod is a good way to end up with a crack in the neck. You can easily lose track of where a safe range of tension should be and go flying past it. A truss rod adjustment, if made at all, should be very slight and you've already gone past that. Sounds like the best way out of this mess is to take it to a good setup / repair person and tell him / her what happened.

 

[PDP]

Thanks, its very dry here right now, but I put one of those things with a wet sponge in it everyday, (I have no idea if it helps) I put the trus back close to where it was.

 

[muttley600]

Simply yanking on the truss rod is not going to do it. First you have to work out where and what strings are buzzing then you decide why and how to fix it.

More details please.

 

[PDP]

Its 90% the A(5th) string, starts at the 7th buzzes worse as you go towards the bridge. I just bought a set of .013s was using .012s IDK. The trus is at its loosest position I assume doing nothing. Now what?

 

[director.gtr]

When changing the truss rod at all, it should be done with 1/8 or 1/4 turn increments. Any more than that will start to mess things up unless you know exactly what you're doing. But if the buzzing started happing before you did anything to the truss rod, that seems to be a humidity problem like Treeline suggested. Its hard to know whether you have enough humidity in your guitar without seeing it. It is fine to use more than one of the 'sponges' that you have. *As long as the water is not dripping off the sponge and soaking into the wood*
I would suggest bringing it to your local music repair shop and see what they say. Maybe if you bring it in, they'll see something you've missed and give you ideas to fix it.

GL!

 

[muttley600]

Lets just clear up the role of the truss rod. It is designed to do one thing only, to counteract the tension of the strings. If you have selective buzzing it is not down to the truss rod. If you have buzzing on a single string it is not down to the truss rod, or more specifically the neck relief. From the sounds of it you have a high fret either one or two frets up from where it starts buzzing or in some cases further up the neck.

If the truss rod is at rest as you suggest then it is not down to the truss rod as it is not doing anything. The first thing you need to do is work out where the high frets are and have them leveled. Then you need to string up with the string gauge you use and only then adjust the truss rod to hold the neck with the amount of relief required. How much you can turn a truss rod and how quickly is a matter of feel and experience. No two necks are the same.