sherwood green '59 look-alike

[vojtasTS29]

Hi, i just wanted to present my eternal "almost finished" build as I'm really proud of how it came together.
Specs:
Musikraft "clapton" V neck finished in nitro with very small stainless frets and a rosewood fingerboard
Kluson single line tuners in nickel
Alder body in sherwood green nitro
9 hole anodized guard
Mastery trem
Staytrem bridge
Tůma pickups Jazzmaster pickup in the bridge, P-90 in the neck. (I'll eventually change these out to the Q pickups 58 set or to antiquity 1's it's just a leftover from when this body had a squier neck on it and i was trying to build the most "versatile" guitar for everything, now i see jazzmasters are the most verstaile guitar when they're stock lmao.)

Btw if anyone has a PAT PEND trem for sale or just the top plate from one, I'm really looking for one

[schoolie]

That looks beautiful! .I never thought of sherwood with gold guard, but I love it!

[Norrin Radd]

Yeah - this looks really really good! I also am digging that gold guard on there. Nice work!

[jdr1014]

Really nice concept and execution. Sherwood Green is one of my all = time favorite colors. I wouldn't have thought of pairing it with a gold PG but looks great. Congrats!

[Veitchy]

Further proof that everything goes with gold.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

As a purist I'm surprised how much I like the gold/green combo but those knobs hurt my brain.

[vojtasTS29]

See i've tried to be as accurate to what a real 59 in that colour would look like as i could, but i really don't like any of the three spoke strat knob reissues, they have a very large and weird font, and i'm not big on the strat knob on gold look anyway, so i went with something also fender, and from a similar era - they're brownface amp knobs.

[vojtasTS29]

Okay, so... Help needed
When i built the guitar last week, it played amazingly well and sounded really nice, but basically overnight it developed an INSANE fret buzz(and it definitely is fret buzz, i can tell and i've ruled out everything else)between 4-10 on the A string and to a lesser extent all over the D string. I've spent several days on it trying to diagnose the issue, but i can't see anything wrong with it. The relief is perfect, no amount of straightening or bowing the neck does almost anything, or only to the amount of what it would do by itself. My action is quite low, but even cranking it to J Mascis levels doesn't fix it at all. Checking the frets with the strings on with a fret rocker revealed like one slightly high fret, i just popped it back in with a rubber hammer, otherwise there isn't a single issue that the fret rocker can diagnose. Yet the buzz persists. It is obviously fret buzz. My luthier said the body and neck just "don't match" probably and that it's a resonance issue. But i honestly think that's not possible over such a wide spectrum and it would cause the notes to sound different. But they don't, it just sounds like i have a guitar made of high frets under the a string.

Any advice? I've spent several days on it without anything changing.

[schoolie]

Sorry that you're having issues with your new guitar. Maybe you can create a new thread in Tech/Setup, with the details, so more people see it.

[jdr1014]

This may sound stupid, but just to rule it out......have you checked the bridge height to see if it might have "settled" from playing the guitar? Did you use blue loctite on the bridge height adjustment screws?

Good luck - I'm sure you will get it sorted out

[jdr1014]

oops - deleted double post.........

[marqueemoon]

This may sound stupid, but just to rule it out......have you checked the bridge height to see if it might have "settled" from playing the guitar? Did you use blue loctite on the bridge height adjustment screws?

Good luck - I'm sure you will get it sorted out

I’ve experienced this myself. The tech who did most of the actual work of putting my project guitar together raised up the saddles pretty high and had the bridge sitting lower on the posts.

With not enough threads engaged the saddles would sink down over time.

Eventually I decided to try raising the bridge on the post a few mm and dropped the saddles down. It’s been stable ever since.

OP has a Staytrem though, so saddle height changing should not be a factor.

[jdr1014]

marqueemoon - I was actually wondering if possibly the OP's bridge height adjustment screws backed out to lower the entire bridge, bringing strings too close to upper frets. I experienced this on my AVRI62 JM back along ..........

[vojtasTS29]

No, the action is about right for me - kind of low, but raising it doesn't solve the problem - it does reduce it a tiny bit, but i'm not trying to get a carpal tunnel , so is the relief. It's definitely fret buzz you can even feel it the way you would if you had a high fret. (also the staytrem has rubber washers so it can't back out). I did have issues with the staytrem though. It's a pretty old one and i've had it on guitars before and it did almost rattle itself apart on this one - i had to loctite the little lock washers on the screws - i pass this off as the guitar being REALLY loud - it rivals most travel acoustics in unplugged volume, i have never had an electric guitar resonate this much before - with flatwounds, nonetheless.

[vojtasTS29]

Hey i just want to say i still haven't found a solution. The guitar is basically unplayable yet all the numbers are perfect and there's no issues i can diagnose. Surely somebody has had a problem like this before?