newish PRS buzz

Welcome to Chordie!

  How we do hate fretbuzz.... only thing is have you determined which string and where on the fretboard the offense is happening?
You say that you have adjusted up on the bridge, which one would think should cure it, but I'm thinking that the problem is likely to be a bit too much "back-bow" on the neck from things moving in the heat and humidity (or lack thereof).

  Sight down the strings from the heel to nut while the thing is up to tune and you should be able to see if you have a bowing issue.  If so a bit of a truss rod adjustment should put it right.  You might consider hauling it in to your local Luthier for a setup if you are not familiar with doing adjustments on your own, as just a little goes a long way.  Most techs will give you an idea of what is wrong and an estimate before going at it, and most will include a new set of strings in the deal.  Around these parts that service usually goes for around $45 depending on if it needs a nut filing or fret dressing to cure a high fret wire.

  PRS is a good quality instrument and one would not think that anything major should have happened (unless you tossed it down a flight of stairs or somesuch).

Take Care, and don't be a stranger hereabouts.
Doug

Thx for the replies and welcome guys.

@Doug - I think I'll try some heavier weight strings before I mess with the truss. I've never had much luck in the past with trussrods. Oddly enough, the first truss adjustments I made to my very first guitar (an $79 Rouge dreadnought) worked like a charm and I played that thing until the frets wore down. I did it right with that instrument, adjusted 1/4 turn every week until the buzz went away. But you are right, my problems are most certainly b/c of climatic induced bowing. I just ordered a mess of different gauges, some with different gauge for top/bottom. I'm going to see if any of them get rid of the buzz, I'll post the results.

I did just learn something new and nifty about PRS trussrods, tho
   

Nice to know in case I need to try an adjustment.

I still think PRS is a quality guitar, tho, cause my strat-clone electric, which i thought was indestructable, dried out so much it popped up my pickguard this summer, revealing the innards (in which the assembly workers had dropped and left about 5 extra springs!! hah!). I miss that guitar tho - my first electric ...

Yikes! Keep the ex away from the guitars man.
Some of that bad mojo they carry will rub off on yer git!
Congrats on the stable marriage, that ain't no common thing nowadays.
I applaud all the men and women out there doing the RIGHT thing!!

=]

To the Original Poster...

Oh yeah, you may want to find out exactly which strings are buzzing and at what frets.
If the guitar has never been professionally setup you may have to drop some bills and git-er-done.
If it's just a temperature swell type thing then just see if you can adjust at the bridge for the strings that are buzzing by raising them in small increments and retuning until the buzz is gone.

If you find that you have to raise them waaaay too much and it throws off your action...you will definitely have to get your guitar neck checked out. You may be suffering from Fret-Sprout due to that heat.

Word of advice from a super guitar-geek: Treat your guitar like a child. Never leave it in the car alone, never leave it out of sight (Unless at home) and never subject it to anything that a 1-year old infant could not survive (IE: shaking, dropping, etc...)

Dm

agree w/ Det. But don't sleep w/ it. You might break its neck! LOL