What's this buzz?

frater

If this bulging thing get worse you should consider neutering your guitar.

kungfumonk007

Is what I am calling a bulge just the pliage? This is my first pliaged guitar so I could just be ignorant here.

kungfumonk007

I just answered my own question. After a little searching I found a picture of a pliage top and that is my bulge. Problem solved.

Bones

Yes I was wondering if the bulge wasn't just the pliage that's why I asked. Not sure why the mustache popped off though.

You might want to get a cheap hygrometer to make sure that you are not over or under humidifying.

These work pretty well.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Humidor-C ... B0007W1EA6

Still not sure what the rattle is. If the top is shrinking in (due to low humidity?) it would tend to cause fret buzzing I would think. If it's the insert on the tailpiece you could probably take it off and put a tiny bit of some type of glue in the slot and put it back on. Maybe that thicker type of superglue (not the watery stuff) but be careful not to use to much and make a mess.

I live near the ocean so there is hardly ever much problem with low humidity here so I'm not really knowledgeable about those issues.

If the buzz starts again maybe have someone else lightly touch the tailpiece insert and see if that stops it???

Good luck.

Edit: temperature extremes could cause the adhesive holding the mustache to loosen so maybe it was humidity as well as temperature. I don't think that humidity (or lack of) would affect the adhesive.

If you damp the strings with your left hand and strum do you still get the rattle?

kungfumonk007

Peter contacted me and I think we solved it - something I never considered but I'm pretty sure it was the problem: the other mustache piece coming lose - the funny thing is right when I got off the phone with him it popped off (Peter is a great guy and wants to pay to have them reglued). It is currently not making the buzz, so as long as it doesn't start up again I'm pretty sure that was it. He also mentioned that the chances of a brace being loose is very very small unless the guitar had endured some serious abuse. I have a similar buzz going on my old Gitane and I'm thinking it is the same problem since it sounds the same and appears to be coming from the same area.

Bones

Hey Kung,

Great news! Yes I should have mentioned that in my previous post about temperature causing the other mustache to pop off. I was wondering if the other one wasn't also loose. Stands to reason.

noodlenot

nice you solved it. problem with buzzes (and rattles and all those noises) is that it doesn´t take much for them to happen (just a very tiny gap goes a long buzz way, so to speak), so sometimes is hard to visualize them, and many times they don´t come from the most obvious places. I have a very annoying rattle on my altamira, but i´m pretty sure it comes from the truss rod being loose inside the slot. my baby daughter had the guitar dropped on the floor (twice!) and the head just broke and popped off, so i had to reglue it. the noise has been with me ever since, it´s now part of that gypsy sound...