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Well.. I had to sand the shim a bit on the bass side because I found that the higher it is the more "zing" I get. To make it even higher to avoid contact with frets (zing), that would be a bit to high...
Maybe its the string or the humidity... the fingerboard is already 'sticking out of the frets'. It has been raining everyday and the humidity as been always around 70% and sometimes more.
I'll see if it goes away with the weather/string changes. My only concern is if it was something structural that wouldnt go away but I cant see anything besides the swoolen wood.
I've had a couple guitars over the years with some weird buzzes, and here's how I solved them.
You can make a little electric circuit with a battery, a flash light bulb and a couple wires, hook a wire to the string in question (only works on bass strings) , and touch the other wire to the frets one by one until you get the light flickering at the moment of the buzz/ring.
Having some alligator clips, and a second person to help will help. You might be able to do the same thing with an multimeter using the ohms setting, maybe on the k-ohms, or megohms range setting would work best to catch that it's contacting.
This assumes you know some basic electricity, and assuming it's a fret buzz.
I had a guitar with a buzz, and it was actually a loose strip of wood (don't know the name of the piece) inside the lower bout where it sits on your leg. Reglued it and it fixed the problem. So look or feel inside for loose wood. That can be a hard one to find if you're hung up on it being fretboard/string related and don't look inside.
Go down the whole finger board with your thumb nail or a small block of wood and press down on the top of each fret at the edge of the fingeboard. You may find one that wobbles up and down.
If you do, put drop of crazy glue next to it and let it soak in next to the fret. Quickly wipe the excess glue with a paper towel and then push the fret in with the block of wood and hold it for a full minute.
A loose fret end can bounce up and down, but the guitar can look perfect until you press it in and feel it give.
Some nice suggestions there. Never thought about that eletrical solution. I might try that with the multimeter and a capo acting as a second person. It is surely a case of back buzz and its just on the 6th string. Yesterday it had almost no zing so it must be the climate.
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