Quick Fix for Guitar Rattle/Buzz

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srshea

Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest

Quick Fix for Guitar Rattle/Buzz

Took the guitar into the side-yard to practice yesterday evening (and yes, I did bring my metronome out there with me), as it’s getting to be the time of year around here when there are only so many days of nice weather remaining.

After a while I started to hear an awful metallic buzz or rattle but couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. A fret? The headstock? Inside the body?

I took the capo off, fiddled with it, put it back on. Played up and down the neck, different chords, softly, medium force, hard.

Couldn’t figure it at all and I started getting a little panicky when I remembered that the guitar had once developed a mysterious death rattle from somewhere inside the body that came and went a few years back. Had the mystery rattle returned with a vengeance?? Then I worried that I might have ruined the guitar just by taking it outside. I almost never take it outside. Did that faintly cool breeze that just wafted by irreparably warp some critical component of the guitar’s construction???

Eventually I discovered the problem: a pearloid snap-button on my western shirt was rattling against the back of the guitar.