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Also glad l am a strat man who can shim a neck easily and make it right.
Set neck buyers beware
If that can't be achieved without the strings pressing on the back of the bridge (the top E is allowed to touch, any more than that is a sign that it's too much) or top-wrapping, then the guitar was built with too steep a neck angle and I wouldn't buy it. To me it doesn't just make it impossible to set up how I would like it - I don't like the feel of the neck being angled that steeply back and I think it alters the balance, makes the guitar feel heavier than it really is, causes tuning problems and steals from the poor.
Just a personal thing - plenty of people are happy with them set higher or actually prefer them like that.
For the tuning problems I think it's because the bridge posts can flex more when they're set too high.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This is what ICBM means about neck angle. This guitar is based on the original 59 neck angle and has a very flat neck rake so the bridge sits low to the body. It means the tailpiece can go all the way down to the body and yet the strings don't touch the bridge.
They steepened the angle later because if you don't get it spot on there is no room for error and if you are a couple of degrees too shallow the strings would hit the pickup covers!
One nice side effect with a shallow neck angle is that the guitar is very comfortable to play and doesn't rake away from your body.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
This is how low I've managed to get it. Really looking how it feels and sounds now
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