The guitar, like any musical instrument, changes its sound over time and therefore requires close attention. One of the main parameters that have to be constantly adjusted is the bend of the neck.
Instructions
Step 1
Check if you really need to correct the bend. Despite the fact that the adjustment process is very simple, the beginning musician risks his own guitar by tuning himself: excessive bending can provoke a crack that cannot be fixed. “Raising the neck” in common people means “bringing it closer to the strings”: the need for such a raising is determined by the complexity of the game - the musician decides on his own whether it is hard to grip the chords and whether his left hand gets tired. Objectively speaking, the distance between the seventh fret nut and the strings should be 3-4 millimeters, however, in fact, the performer's own feeling is much more important.
Step 2
Find a hexagonal hole on the fretboard and pick up a wrench of the correct diameter. The notch can be located at the base of the neck, inside the body, or at the very end of the instrument. If the knob is inside, loosen a few strings so that you don't accidentally break them when you turn them. However, it is best not to touch the bass (sixth) string in order to determine the relative change in bend, if necessary.
Step 3
Insert the key into the hole and turn it gently. Determine which way the bend changes as you rotate clockwise. Raise the neck until the strings are comfortable to grip (check this better with the barre technique and the H chord in particular). Make sure that the open bass string does not rattle when you strike. If rattling is heard, then by all means lower the neck - this should not be.
Step 4
Stretch the strings if you pulled them down. Make sure the guitar is in tune. It is quite obvious that when the neck bend changes, the string tension also changes, but in practice the difference is not always noticeable. If the instrument has to be tuned again, it will be rather a "cosmetic" procedure - the basic tone will remain in any case.
