Understanding Humidity; Adjusting The Neck Of Your Fretlight 5 Guitar - Fretlight 5 Owner's Manual

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Cleaning Your Fretboard

-The advanced polymer fretboard acts and behaves like a normal rosewood or ebony

fingerboard in many ways except for cleaning and/or sanding. Use only a dry or damp

cloth (water only) to clean any finger oil or residue from your Fretlight 5 fretboard.

After you've been playing for a few months, you may notice small scratches on the

fretboard's surface. You can always smooth those out by buffing the fretboard lightly

with a Scotch-Brite™ pad.

Do NOT use any solvents, oils or fluids other than water.

Doing so will VOID the warranty.

Do NOT use a powered sander or sanding device on your Fretlight 5.

Doing so will VOID the warranty.

Fretlight Dual Footswitch

Climate affects a guitar's playability which means that the neck on a guitar may move

slightly depending on the amount of humidity in your location. Not to worry!

Most guitars have a truss-rod in order to compensate for this movement. A truss-rod is a

metal rod inside the neck that can be adjusted at the headstock to lessen or increase the

forward or backward bow. Your guitar neck was adjusted at the factory. However, you

may notice after a few months, after your guitar acclimatizes to your location, that it may

move or "bow" slightly. This is normal. One to two times per year (usually during

seasonal weather changes), you may need to have your guitar adjusted or "set-up" for

optimum ease of play (it's a great time to change your strings as well). We recommend

you visit a local guitar store that has a guitar technician who performs these routine

services or you can try to adjust it yourself using the directions below.

Adjusting the Neck of your Fretlight 5

Sight down the side of the neck from the back of the bridge to the nut.

A very slight upward curve in the neck or a flat neck is desired for opti-

mal playability (depends on how hard you pick and strum). More experi-

enced players opt for a flat neck.

If the neck needs some adjustment, first loosen the strings, then insert

the Allen wrench into the truss rod nut located at the headstock.

If the neck is bowed upward too much, turn the truss rod clock-

wise a quarter turn, tune up the guitar and check the neck again. If

the neck is bowed downward, turn the truss rod counter-clockwise

a quarter turn, tune up the guitar and check the neck again.

Note: As you turn the nut, you may pass through a dead point

Note:

(center) where the nut spins freely until it catches the threads of

the truss rod in the other direction. This is normal.

(Optional)

Using the optional Fretlight footswitch gives you hands-free control

of your Fretlight Studio 6 for the Beginner software. Simply connect

the 1/4" plug from the dual footswitch into the 1/4" jack on your

Fretlight USB cable.