This is a long post, and im truly sorry for that, but here goes.
Where i live, it seems to be difficult to get an appointment with a good luthier.
I recently bought a Hohner 57st pro (left handed) strat style. (The first one with a bridge like this).
Brought it to a luthier for a setup, the nut needed to be replaced so that’s what happened.
There was one little problem that i solved myself and that was a sllght humming sound when i strummed the sixth and fifth string.
It seemed that the tremolo was touching the body (inside the guitar) and that was responsible for the unwanted humming. Loosened the screws (all three of them), brought the “body” of the tremolo halfway of the cavity and went on playing.
Now recently i took it to my (evening) school and my guitar teacher pointed out that the bridge was not as it should be. The bridge was floating somewhere between 0 and 1cm above the body.
I said that that was how the luthier gave it back, so i thought it was ok.
He had his doubts, but said nothing else about it. But that stayed with me, because he knows a lot more than i do…
Now yesterday, i may have made the mistake of looking at pictures of tremolo’s (2-point, 6-point tremolo’s, no floyd roses) and how they sit on strats. And they sit really close to the body.
So out comes the screwdriver, down goes the bridge and now it sits a few mm’s above the body (on the screws side), as it won’t go any lower. On the back side, there’s a gap somewhere between 0 and 0,5 mm, i guess between the body and the bridge.
This had an interesting side effect. Strings G and D started buzzing. The others were ok. (except for tuning and intonation).
So out comes the allen key and i go about raising the saddles of these strings, to rid me of this buzzing.
Now, after tuning and intonating all the strings, i find myself doing nothing else but just that.
I spent an hour today, just tuning the strings.
I start at the high e, up to the low e, and check the high e again. It’s out of tune! A few cents, but it is.
So i tune them again. I play a short while and out of pitch they go…
It seems that tuning the high or low e to pitch, seems to influence the other strings.
What’s going on? I’m missing something, or a lot, since i haven’t seen this “behaviour” on my other guitars (which all have fixed bridge tune-o-matics).
The obvious thing to do would be to bring it to a luthier. But there’s a waiting period, since he’s got a lot of work.
I’m not all that happy on going back to the first one, since i have a feeling that he botched the job. I’d like to have a second opinion.
So, untill i can get an appointment, i’d like to see what i can do myself.