Re: Killer deal on Kentucky KM 900 Master Model A
Originally Posted by
mandopaul
My saddle is cranked very high, don't like the way its leaning and I can't lower it much, as I get fret buzzing. (and i did have frets leveled and ruts filed out, so its not that) The action is still not very high. It still sounds very good, dry and woody.
That really needs checking by a good mandolin luthier. From what I can see in the 4th image, there could well be a problem with neck relief. Your string height over the extension looks more than enough to eliminate any possibility of buzzing if the relief was right. Note: neck relief is not an action adjustment. Other possibilities include a 'bump' or other distortion in the fingerboard, but that should have been picked up during levelling. Something definitely wrong there. A full checkup should reveal the root of the problem. Neck angles on these tend to be very well set, so it would be very unusual for that to be implicated.
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