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Originally Posted by 85Dave
There was a line in the book "How to make your electric guitar play great" - Dan Erlewine that suggested that the neck on a guitar was built strong enough to take the beating of not having any tension of the strings on it and he takes the strings off all guitars to clean and adjust the guitars he repairs each day.
I can't seem to find that text so I won't quote it until I go...its a 133 page book with a bunch of text so I could be looking all night for that...
I tend to go with him on this one as he has done it for years without any problem.
My guitars playing great so far...no buzz or anything...just great tone
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I used to do the same thing to my SG. Take off all the strings and clean the frets with lemon oil. The neck was warped after several goes at this and there were some dead notes.
I'm not sure if this happened because I did this or just because the guitar was janky. But anyways I don't do that anymore. Keep in mind that Dan Erlewine probably says he tweaks his guitars everytime he changes the strings. I would gues a truss rod adjustment might be part of that.