Raising action on an OFR

[straycat]

You hear so much BS on the net about this and some of the reasons people give makes me wonder if they even work on guitars.

[Grim]

Fear not Toe, I was able to parse your reply and correct your slip-up.

Everything went without a hiccup. It's currently about 2mm bass side and a little under that treble side. Did not remove tension and my trem has not undergone spontaneous combustion.

Thanks for the help,

G

[toejam]

Cool. Glad you got it all settled.

[ps43203]

The way I do it is to just pop the springs out of it, turn away, when happy put a little ball of Vaseline on each post where your knives are touching the post. Pop springs back in and play, 9/10 w/o re-tuning. I see it like this, you are turning metal posts. on metal edges right? Which causes friction, which causes wear. So I pop springs, no friction.

[Axewielder]

The only time I loosen strings when adjusting action is with TOM's, otherwise those can be hard to turn with your fingers. This is especially true with gold TOM's as they can wear easily. But an OFR? I just have at that sumbich with a hex wrench.