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Fret buzz on first and second frets

Several things go into string setup and buzz

  • truss rod
  • fret leveling
  • nut
  • neck angle
  • bridge height

If it's a new problem, truss rod is probably the most likely to have changed recently (wood moves), followed by fret wear.

If this guitar has always done this, it could be anything in its setup. Depending on how bad it is, it could even be intentional, the low strings are more likely to buzz and some folks are ok with it on an electric in order to get lower action on all the strings.

It's unlikely to be (only) your nut though - once you fret a string, the nut is removed from the equation, so it can't be the source of 2nd fret buzz (edit: any fretted buzz).

If you want to fully diagnose it rather than guess& check, you'd want a long straight-edge to check the neck straightness, a short straight-edge to check for unlevel frets (you can get a specially designed one called a fret rocker), and any small thing like a credit card to 'measure' your string action height at various frets.

Fixing the truss rod is a good repair to do anyway*, though. Hope this helps!

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New house, new server - step 1: update diagram

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You're definitely right, I'm going to remove the Hue hub and connect everything to the ConBee. They were separated before because Hue came first, and I didn't want to rebuild my lighting setup at the time. HA automations were set up to use Hue-side groups, rather than HA-side groups. The thought hadn't occurred to me yet that I can unify them now - but I definitely will.

I did think I remembered that Hue bulbs don't work properly as ZigBee routers, but could be wrong there

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My favorite guitar I own, whats yours?

I have to cheat and say I have two favorites!

In normal terms, I would say my 1965 Airline, because it feels like owning a bit of history to me (it's my only vintage). It might be a bit cliche because of The White Stripes, but Jack White was the first guitar player that really influenced me and gave me the bug, so it means something special to me even if it's a popular/celebritized model.

(Sorry I can't figure out why Lemmy is rotating it, it's not rotated on my phone)

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My favorite guitar I own, whats yours?

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My other favorite is the one that I built this year, which I'd been wanting to do for ages and will continue doing as a hobby and maybe eventual retirement activity. It has a ton of mistakes but feels special knowing how it all went together.

My favorite subreddit was r/Luthier, I just started up an equivalent community here, although given current user base I'm guessing all discussion will happen here on guitars until we're able to support more niche users like that.

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So we found a litter of stray kittens...

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Haha I know what you mean, I have a foster-fail that is 5 now, and she's just not a snuggly cat and generally aggressive. I would have worried about her going to a shelter for adoption by the masses, so I kept her and give her the very distant love that she deserves 😅

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Birding festival recommendations?

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Thanks for the link! We don't, but it would be awesome if we could somehow make it work as we also heard about a couple in South American countries that looked awesome. We were wondering if we could just kind of shuffle along following the finger pointing 😂

I'm in the southeast US - last year we made it over to both the Black Belt festival in central Alabama, and also for the Alabama Coastal Birdfest in the Mobile area