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# Take it to a music shop
and ask them to do a proper set-up.

It will cost between £20 and £40 and your guitar will come back playing better than you can ever imagine.

NOTE: Unless you have dropped it down the stairs, or sat on it, or have already fucked about with it, your truss rod shouldn't really need to be touched.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:49, archived)
# except when it doesn't and comes back exactly the same only a bit shinier
*wants a new guitar, but can't afford/justify it*
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:52, archived)
# Ha ha, well...
you see my sig?

I'm now totally broke and have more guitars than I need. But I'm happy. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:55, archived)
# I have seen your sig
which inspired me to make a guitar-based pic

send photo?

(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:56, archived)
# I don't trust music shops.
They talk shite, for a start. And try to sell me BLOODY normal guitars.

No, I don't want your pissy smaller guitar. Oh yes, my dinky little hands are ever so cute. No, I don't know how I don't hurt my weeny little fingers with bass strings either.'

'Can you stand up with that on' has been asked before. I'm an ox of a woman, for crying out loud.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# They're all patronising bastards...
Do they try and flog you Daisy Rock guitars?

One way to stop them is "Yes, I always find my womb gets in the way of the low E string, can you fix that?"

They are frightened by women's things...
(I helped save b3ta! Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# Yes, constantly.
Or acrylic fucking legends- they seem to be unable to grasp that I may like my bass for it's sound, not because it's pretty (although it is)

(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:01, archived)
# I once saw a lady playing a Gibson Thunderbird Bass IV
It was quite the most enormous bass I've ever seen, and she was tiny.

VERY sexy look though...
(I helped save b3ta! Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:06, archived)
# :D Small girls + big instruments = brilliance.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:17, archived)
# Ohh
I have that problem. The music shop is forever trying to convince me that I need a 3/4 sixe violin, and a curved head on my flute.

I'm not* a midget!

Then the watermelloning cranberries giggled at me when I bought a ukulele.


*Ok, I probably am a midget, with my 12cm handspan.
(I helped save b3ta! wanky art student is liable to phwoar at any minute, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:59, archived)
# 'That bass is as big as you are'
Yes, that plectrum's as big as your cock.

Piss off and leave me alone.

Right, ciggy time.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:02, archived)
# I'd love to be a bassist
except I am the only one in my band who's even competent at playing the drums
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:04, archived)
# Heh, drums are hard
our drummer's brill, but he's offskiing to Oz for 3 months.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:17, archived)
# see
drums come easy to me (to a point) but I'd much rather be the bassist - our bassist (lovely bloke, bless im) seems to be restricted to four notes in any one song

I could cry
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:25, archived)
# Get him a bloody scales book.
Once you've learnt scales you're sorted- I can't read music but I know my scales so I know which notes I can go to.

Then he'll be able to wander around the fretboard like a jazz bitch.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:28, archived)
# crikey
is there anyone on b3ta who doesn't own a uke?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:03, archived)
# No.
Well, maybe. But those that don't have a uke probably have an accordion.
(I helped save b3ta! wanky art student is liable to phwoar at any minute, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:05, archived)
# I started it
everybody else is just a bandwagoneer.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:14, archived)
# Well I trust my local shop
but that's because it's owned by a good friend of mine and I work there (though not in the retail side of things).

Instead of going through a shop, you could try looking for local, private guitar repair people. I really would not recommend fucking with the truss rod unless you are 100% sure about what you are doing.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:03, archived)
# that's why I haven't- I'm going to get manwife's dad to have a look at it.
He's a brilliant player, bless him- does stuff with Stray.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:13, archived)