Timeline for Intonation problem at 20th fret (top 3 strings only) - Harley Benton SC-550
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| Aug 8, 2023 at 12:41 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I've no idea, sorry - will likely also depend where you live. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 12:21 | comment | added | user1175461 | OK I just rested the edge of an action gauge on the 21st fret and it definitely rocks over that fret. Any idea what a luthier might charge to fix that sort of thing? | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 11:51 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I can't really tell anything from the photo, even after sharpening it up a long way in Photoshop. You need the straightedge edge-on, actually touching all the frets in the area you're examining. That looks like it's laid flat, so it's floating off the frets at the edges where we can see them. That's why you really need the rocker too, you can set it just to three frets at a time & literally feel it rocking over a high fret. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 11:24 | comment | added | user1175461 | Many thanks for the feedback - that sounds logical. To my untrained eye, it looks more like fret 20 is too low, rather than fret 21 too high, but I could well be mistaken. Sounds like good advice re. taking it to a luthier, although I'm not sure whether it will be cost-effective to have it rectified! i.imgur.com/kvkmpX3.png | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 7:44 | comment | added | Kaddath | The OP can try to confirm this by increasing the action of the strings (to have them higher, eg more distance from the frets) and the problem should disappear. But yes, if the 20 does not make difference with the 21, it's probably that the 21 fret is too high | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 18:10 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
