Corvette Standard Bridge Adjustment

[gre]

Hello,
This is my third Warwick which is a Corvette Standard Fretless.

My question is: When adjusting the bridge height I noticed that I could not bring it down to the point where the strings would lay on the neck. I usually do this (bringing the bridge all the way down) when I'm setting up a bass for the first time and then raising the height up to get the optimum action.

I believe that I have done this on my other basses but for some reason it will not work on this one.

Is this common?

I found that I had to decrease the relief in the neck making it more straight than I usualy would inorder to get the string height down.

I did adjust the individual strings as well, with the lowest height reasonably availble and the nut also.

What happens though is that I have more buzz on the lower part of the fret board (which means it is too straight) inorder to have a decent action on the higher frets. Or I can put more relief on the neck and have a better action on the lower frets but it is higher on the upper frets.

So, right now I'm just trying to find the happy medium.

Let me know your thoughts? The only solution that I was thinking that would fix this would be to shim the neck since the bridge will not go any lower due to the height of the metal block underneath the bridge connected to the body in the cavity.

Thanks,

Gerry

 

[Florin]

Hello Gerry, welcome to the forum

I the bridge should have usable settings, so I don't think it's not normal that cannot be set with the strings completely down. Anyway, it is a fretless, so it is 1mm lower the fretboard, because ... you have no frets.
The release should be pretty standard, you don't set the string height from there. Press the strings on frets 12 and 1 and you should have the width of a credit card at fret 7.
After you set the release, you can set the action... It should work well down to 1,5 mm at fret G, and a little bit higher at fret B, if you want a low action.

You can tilt the neck a little bit, I've done it before, and I didn't noticed a change in sound... I removed the neck, and added a little piece of wood in the lower part of the pocket.

CHeers, Flo

 

[gre]

Hello Flo,
Last night I did shim the neck and it made a world of difference!

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated!

Gerry

 

[Florin]

This is great Gerry Now please, post some pictures with your baby