Help Wanted

[William Colin Novelli]

Alright, Ive owned my Robin Savoy for about 8-9 months now. I love it. The sound, the feel, hell everything about it is amazing. I just wanted to get that through first :P, Anyway Im an avid guitar player and I play my Savoy hours a day, so obviously I string my guitar at least once amonth. Alright, just a few minutes ago I decided to restring my guitar, the strings were old and on top of that my guitar needed a little cleaning. So I removed all the strings and went about removing the dust that collects around the pickups and on basically just shined my guitar up a bit, nothing major. I didn't do anything to any of the hardware or something like that. Then I got some new strings (same exact brand and gage Ive used forever) and started putting them on. Then problems started. Some of my strings were buzzling like crazy, they were making contact with the fretboard near the neck pickup. I'm pretty confused, I didnt change the action or play with any of the hardware. the only hardware that came off was the bridge, which comes off after all the strings have been removed. Im not a technical person, I know almost nothing about how to fix guitars. Basically I can just string and clean. So anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

[Ken Jones]

I would imagine that the bridgepost's height adjustment thingies (washers/nuts/whatever they-are-called) were rotated slightly when you were cleaning the guitar. These things spin freely on most guitars when they don't have the tension from the strings pushing down on the bridge.

Loosen the strings and raise the height on these height adjusters. Tune the guitar to pitch and check it out. If the strings still buzz, try raising them a little bit higher. If there's not a buzz after you raise them you might be able to lower them back a bit.

[William Colin Novelli]

Yep I played around with the bridgepost's height after attaching a couple of strings, when they were no longer buzzing I addeed the rest, tuned it up and it plays perfectly once again. Thankyou Very Much http://robinlovers.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

[Ken Jones]

Keep in mind that once you have all the strings tuned up to pitch, the neck will have more relief than it did with two strings, so you can probably lower the bridge a little bit more if you want. Since you will be lowering the bridge, you shouldn't have to remove the strings. Just lower the height adjusters, tune it back up to pitch and see if it still plays without buzzing.