jnastynebr Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I have learned that this is the place to come with dumb questions, so here it is: Leant my lester to pops to do some recoring for a few weeks. As a super nice thank you, he took off the strings, polished the body and neck, oiled the fretboard and shined all of the hardware. Unfortunately, he did not have my gage of strings, so it sat for about a week in the case with no strings or tention on the neck. I got it back, but am worried about ruining the set up while re- stringing. Is there anything that I need to worry about? Am I being overly cautious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Just re-string and see what it sounds like. Did it go through a lot of environment changes while unstrung? If the intonation is out, you should be able to adjust the saddles. Or you may have to tweak the truss rod to adjust the neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 It will be fine. The truss rod keeps that neck pretty rigid. You might be retuning a bit for a few days once things are under tension again though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowdown Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 LP's are built like brick sh*thouses mate. You might have to do a few tweaks here and there maybe 'til it settles as surfpup mentioned,but overall you have zilch to worry about. Unless it's a Limited Edition Chinese Custom Shop model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Scientific and engineering theorys do not lie. Put the same strings back on it that were taken off, and the neck, action, intonation and everything else will be right back where it was, period. It doesn't take "days" to settle in, it won't need "tweaking " later, it's basic engineering principles: "For very action, there is an opposite and equal reaction", meaning that force (tension) of the strings pulling the neck forward are equaled by the force of the truss rod pulling the neck backwards. The only thing that could change your setup would be "fatigue". Nothing on your guitar has fatigued in a week, that normally takes years, like maybe 100. String it up, play it, and enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Scientific and engineering theorys do not lie. Put the same strings back on it that were taken off' date=' and the neck, action, intonation and everything else will be right back where it was, period. It doesn't take "days" to settle in, it won't need "tweaking " later, it's basic engineering principles: "For very action, there is an opposite and equal reaction", meaning that force (tension) of the strings pulling the neck forward are equaled by the force of the truss rod pulling the neck backwards. The only thing that could change your setup would be "fatigue". Nothing on your guitar has fatigued in a week, that normally takes years, like maybe 100. String it up, play it, and enjoy it.[/quote'] as above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loneguitar Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Unless the saddles got moved or the height while the strings were off you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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