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I've trimmed the spring down by almost half, but to no avail. As I said, it's only the Low C (thickest string) that's out by a bit. The string IS at a dodgey 90 degree over the basic saddle, but we'll see how that goes. I think i'll try looking at buying the proper gauge thingy (whats it called?) so that I can sort this problem out myself and on any other basses I have in future. Sure getting it set up for £30 would be easy, but I want to learn my own bass care skills! Cheers guys! All fair comments. Much love

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1420660169' post='2651908'] You don't say why you can't get the strings intonated properly - have you run out of adjustment on the screws? I have a Curbow 5 and the B wouldn't intonate correctly, it was always a tad sharp when I had the saddle back as far as it would go. The intonation adjustment screws disappear into the block design saddles meaning the intonation screw was too long for that string so I took a hacksaw, cut a couple of millimetres off it, cleaned the sawn end up with a file and got the saddle back on and now get the B intonating correctly pretty much all the way up the neck, certainly to the 12th fret. One thing I would say is don't change the neck relief to adjust the action - set the relief according to what Schecter advise - I set my basses up with about .012" relief at the 8th fret and the action is usually 6/64" at the 17th fret for the low E and 5/64" for the G, so I've got a touch more than 6/64" action for the low B on my Curbow. Hope that helps. Howie [/quote]Some good advice. It turns out my screwdriver was just too bad, I bought a new one this morning and now my schecter is almost fully intonated. I ran out of space for the low C to come back towards the bridge, but it's only a hair out so I can live with that. How should I fully intonate the low C though? Do I need a new bridge now?

Hey guys, I have a Schecter bass in drop C (CGCF) that wont seem to intonate. I use the bottom 4 strings from a 5 string set to handle the low tunings and recently have adjusted the truss rod to make the action high to avoid buzz of any kind whilst playing. Now I'm trying to intonate it and it won't budge. Am I missing a trick? did I adjust the Truss rod too much? Any intonation gurus out there for low tunings / thick strings? Cheeeeers