Alright, this isn't specifically a "Jerry Tone" issue (though it is on the guitar I use for Jerry tone), but there's really no subforum on this forum for general guitar troubleshooting, and since it's going to be misplaced wherever it goes, I figured I'd at least put it where it'll get the most exposure. So, here goes:
On the high E string, and on the B to a lesser extent, I constantly get this high-pitched pingy, sitar-like sound emanating from the string saddle that varies from being barely audible below the 8th fret or so to being really awful sounding when I get up to fret 12. It's at its worst when I bend the string more than a half step, which I do with relative frequency. I've taken this to two guitar techs over the last year, three different times for the first one and twice for the second, replaced the entire bridge two times, and I still have this damned problem as bad as ever (even worse than before in some respects).
There are obviously no guitar techs I know of in my area who can even hear the problem well enough to diagnose and fix it, and I'm wondering two things specifically: (1) is this a problem anyone here is familiar with? And, (2) if so, is it the kind of problem I could teach myself how to fix if I just bought a file and a new bridge and did a little practice?
Because I'm tired of throwing hundreds of dollars at these people and having them both treat me condescendingly and either not fixing the problem or creating a new problem of the same kind in a different place in the saddle when they fix the initial problem. I have very good fine motor skills and a good enough ear to know what I want it to sound like (not like an awful-sounding sitar with no sustain, lol), so it seems like a possibility to me if it's not one of the harder things to learn how to do on a guitar.
Thanks for reading.
On the high E string, and on the B to a lesser extent, I constantly get this high-pitched pingy, sitar-like sound emanating from the string saddle that varies from being barely audible below the 8th fret or so to being really awful sounding when I get up to fret 12. It's at its worst when I bend the string more than a half step, which I do with relative frequency. I've taken this to two guitar techs over the last year, three different times for the first one and twice for the second, replaced the entire bridge two times, and I still have this damned problem as bad as ever (even worse than before in some respects).
There are obviously no guitar techs I know of in my area who can even hear the problem well enough to diagnose and fix it, and I'm wondering two things specifically: (1) is this a problem anyone here is familiar with? And, (2) if so, is it the kind of problem I could teach myself how to fix if I just bought a file and a new bridge and did a little practice?
Because I'm tired of throwing hundreds of dollars at these people and having them both treat me condescendingly and either not fixing the problem or creating a new problem of the same kind in a different place in the saddle when they fix the initial problem. I have very good fine motor skills and a good enough ear to know what I want it to sound like (not like an awful-sounding sitar with no sustain, lol), so it seems like a possibility to me if it's not one of the harder things to learn how to do on a guitar.
Thanks for reading.