Strings on my les paul

[Graemewoodman]

Ok it's a Epiphone les Paul 24.75 scale. I have D'Addario EXP 115 (11-48) on the guitar at the moment. Yesterday I took the guitar to the shop for a complete setup. I get the guitar back and the bridge is higher on one side. The guy has tuned it to some different tuning he's adjusted the pickups. The guys said he made the action really low. The high e,b and g strings are 11s and they feel like 9s I can bend them half way up the fretboard. And they all buzz. The same with the low E. I've had 9s,10s and now 11s I've all had to upgrade because they are not staying in tune. And everytime I take it to the shop it comes back worse. Is there a logical explaination why the strings won't stay in tune and feel so loose.

 

[paulygates]

I hope shalustik's response was of some help to you.

If not, I would suggest taking your guitar to a different tech.

 

[snaredrum]

i think either your tech or your guitar sucks.

and i always look for human error first

 

[Drew224]

It's not in your strings at ALL, dude. It's that you let other people set up your guitars, and you NEED to NEED to lube your nut and saddles with graphite. Great improvement. I do it on my guitars. That's your tuning problem.

As for buzzing, I ask, how straight is your neck? Should be completely straight if not, then close. And, you should go back to '9s and just raise the action yourself. Don't trust 90% of people in guitar shops, they don't know a thing.

 

[Mookakian]

I hope shalustik's response was of some help to you.

If not, I would suggest taking your guitar to a different tech.

+1

A second oppinion on the guitar wont hurt, i see you are from NZ? try asking over at ANZF.com if there is a luthier nearby, some good people in there.
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[Rich]

Around 20+ years ago, I had a similar experience but it involved replacing a neck on a guitar that I owned. Long story short, the tech brought his own guitar out for me to check out and it buzzed like hell too so I got a refund and the original neck put back on my guitar. I'd find a different tech.

Now, I'm not trying to say that your tech is bad per se, but perhaps he tries to set up everyone's guitars like his own rather than listening to what his customers say and what they want. In the story I wrote above, I had that guitar gone over THREE times by that tech and it ended up buzzing each time because he didn't listen or didn't know how to set up a guitar for anyone else besides himself.

 

[tamias89]

Go to STEWMAC.COM : Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Mandolin, Parts, Tools, Supplies, Free Information , get some tools, watch some youtube vids, and do it yourself. good luck!

 

[AudioWonderland]

Ok it's a Epiphone les Paul 24.75 scale. I have D'Addario EXP 115 (11-48) on the guitar at the moment. Yesterday I took the guitar to the shop for a complete setup. I get the guitar back and the bridge is higher on one side. The guy has tuned it to some different tuning he's adjusted the pickups. The guys said he made the action really low. The high e,b and g strings are 11s and they feel like 9s I can bend them half way up the fretboard. And they all buzz. The same with the low E. I've had 9s,10s and now 11s I've all had to upgrade because they are not staying in tune. And everytime I take it to the shop it comes back worse. Is there a logical explaination why the strings won't stay in tune and feel so loose.

sounds like you need to find a new tech

 

[Pinkie]

+1 The reason its not staying in tune maybe he didn't re-cut the nut for the larger strings.
99% of tuning problems are in the nut ie strings being pinched in the nut slot and muting the strings or the wound strings catching in the nut slot.
By all means learn to do it yourself its cheaper and in the end and you have it the way YOU want it!
Did he wrap the strings over the tail piece or did he run them thru the tail piece?
Over the top you will get a slacker feeling in the strings.More string contact to the bridge that way and most of the time on mine I wrap the strings over the tail piece.

 

[pentadactylon]

OK man, rise a little whole strings, Lube your nut with grapite, and chek yourself tuning with "AP Tuitar Tuner" in your laptop, there are more sixteen preset tuning available...

 

[Dolebludger]

All too many Epis (and other lower cost guitars) need a professional fret level to really get the action many of us want. You need a god luthier for this, and it sounds like you don't have one. My luthier charged me $65 for a fret level on my Epi, and it was worth every penny.

Also, if you still have the stock plastic nut, it will cause you tuning problems unless you lube it very regularly. I had a bone nut put on mine for a $27 luthier charge.