fret buzz on 1 string and some frets, but no truss rod

[den_gerten]

Hi, someone offered a Kritz guitar for a guitar of mine.

 

These guitars are special anyway and have carbon reinforded necks, so the truss rod is not needed. I looked and the neck is still straight.

The problem is that the high E string buzzes almost most around the 12th fret. When bending on the 12th fret, the sound dies too.

The low E has buzz on the 3rd fret and some more.

The action on the guitar was pretty low, but that the idea of the guitar anyway.

 

Would a higher action solve the problem? It's kind of a tun o matic style, but the screws are in the body and altering is not that fast before buying.

Or would it need a fret redress? It hasn't been played that much I think.

[caveman]

Sounds like it needs fret leveling.

[DaleH]

Heavier strings and raise the saddle on the strings that buzz?

[Bro Blue]

Raising it a little could help. If it doesn't, the frets need leveling.

[den_gerten]

Thanks guys.

Thats what I was thinking, but on a guitar that's not mine, it's difficult to try things.

I guess i better back off then.

[ashasha]

I just had a guitar that buzzed on the 9th fret on the b string. That's it. Only frickin note on the entire guitar that died. I thought for sure that it was a low fret, but I measured it about 10 times with a caliper and it wasn't just close, it was exactly the same height as the other frets.

 

I then checked the relief of the neck. It's a bit straighter than I typically go for so I went to try to dial it in, but it actually got a bit worse as a I gave it more relief (which makes sense). Taking some relief out didn't help and created issues along the entire guitar.

 

I put it away for the night, came back with a fresh set of eyes the next day (and I forgot to mention that I did tweak the overall action a bit and it wasn't working because it just raised everything too much). I decided to check the radius of the strings and noticed that the B string itself was lower than all the other strings...looked at the bridge (floyd rose) and sure enough the saddle was very low. Put a shim in there and it fixed it right up.

 

I still have no idea why it would only be on one fret, but it was. I suppose that it had to do with where the lowest point of the fretboard for the relief is at.

 

So my point is if you can adjust the individual saddle's height I'd give it a tweak.

[den_gerten]

individual saddle hight can't be adjusted (TOM bridge type).

The neck relief can't be adjusted because there is nog truss rod.

This leaves very littleoptions

the neck is straight, maybe more than I'm used to.