Desert island guitar. One !

[DrewJD82]

Satch has his guitars pleked and set up low (1mm low) they need to be dead straight with the radius he likes to work at all . The straight head goes way back to the Roadster necks he put on Strats in the mid 80s. It was the only strat style neck Ibanez made at the time and the JS is basically the exact same thing but with 6105 frets.

Does the straight vs. angled headstock have any effect on the guitar’s overall string tension? I’m curious about that aspect.

 

[Gearzilla]

I dunno how Satch does it, dude prefers no relief in the neck (I’m curious if this is why he prefers straight headstocks opposed to angled) and extremely low action, said he wants to even up the entire neck. I love having that little relief there so as I get above the 12th fret I can get just a little more finger meat under the strings, it’s not a lot though.

And I confirmed my suspicions about neck relief and string tension the other night- added a little relief, tuned it up and my bridge was decked after it was floating previously. I keep it floating maybe at an 1/8”, probably a little under, but that 1/8th of a turn on the truss rod gave enough slack in the strings that the bridge was flat on the body.

The Satch set up will buzz a bit acoustically(even with a soft touch). I really like that overall setup, but just backed off a hair.

The Satriani set up is/was known as the “low Joe”.

 

[Eagle]

The Satch set up will buzz a bit acoustically(even with a soft touch). I really like that overall setup, but just backed off a hair.

Not if perfect. you can get percussive rattle if you hit too hard but it is possible with a plek, perfect truss rod and excellent fretwork.

 

[Gearzilla]

Not if perfect. you can get percussive rattle if you hit too hard but it is possible with a plek, perfect truss rod and excellent fretwork.

Being pretty familiar with this particular set up, and the fingering issues I’d say in this particular case that the “low Joe” is going to have a bit of buzz.

 

[Eagle]

Being pretty familiar with this particular set up, and the fingering issues I’d say in this particular case that the “low Joe” is going to have a bit of buzz.

No ,as I said if everything is right .

 

[Gearzilla]

No ,as I said if everything is right .

Let me put it another way. Joe’s guitars buzz a bit acoustically.

The softer one’s left hand touch the lower the action can be without buzz due to fingering.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

OP, wanna change thread title to "desert island guitar setup"?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

LP special

 

[Eagle]

LP special

pictures!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

pictures!

No - I'm sure the setup is wrong and don't wanna hear the criticism.

 

[Gearzilla]

On a desert island I’m going to have to go with an acoustic.

 

[fretworn]

Solar powered fractal … and Wi-Fi for the updates …

 

[Fireproof]

On a desert island I’m going to have to go with an acoustic.

Haha - good point. If we are LITERALLY talking about a desert island, then I’d probably just take my trusty old Martin D-28. (Or I guess if we are just dreaming, then probably a D-42, because why not).