Who knows what this gold piece of metal on the GB10 does?

[skiboyny]

You should be able to knock on the neck and see if the truss is rattling. One other thing if the nut is cut too low it can cause a back buzz that can be almost impossible to track down. If you can recreate the buzz and have someone touch the string in back of the fretted note lightly if it goes away you've got a back clearance problem. Those type of problems are really tough and come and go due to slight humidity changes.

yeah I read that one too - it scared me a bit!

strangely enough I left my guitar for two hours and went back to it and it was gone!

Had a luthier quickly look at it and he couldn’t find it and then it just disappears.

happy but I know it’ll be back ?

[guavajelly]

Hi, I had the problem with the rattling truss rod (I'm nosuch in the TDPRI) . Luckily the guitar had been replaced by the shop on warranty. I could imagine that if the rattling in your guitar came from the neck that it was just a change of weather that initially caused and eventually terminated the rattling? Like the trussed became loose when the neck moved and was tightened again when it eased back.
BTW my favorite guitar now is the ES 330 and it has most sympathetic rattlings of all my guitars. It's not perfect, but it has so much character that I live with the noise.

[Dennis D]

..........These are available at any hardware store.......use them as spacers, cut them to size, great as a test piece to try to isolate buzz, etc etc......

I've used them under p/g brackets that have gotten misaligned, etc etc......you don't glue to the surface either - -you glue 2 together and glue one side to the underside of the p/g...

good luck !!!

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[Dennis D]

Hi, I had the problem with the rattling truss rod (I'm nosuch in the TDPRI) . Luckily the guitar had been replaced by the shop on warranty. I could imagine that if the rattling in your guitar came from the neck that it was just a change of weather that initially caused and eventually terminated the rattling? Like the trussed became loose when the neck moved and was tightened again when it eased back.
BTW my favorite guitar now is the ES 330 and it has most sympathetic rattlings of all my guitars. It's not perfect, but it has so much character that I live with the noise.

...and FWIW, another rattle issue I thought I'd never find, turned out to be a hairline split in the nut.......the luthier missed it too, even after several set-ups and string changes.......

......bottom line- - new nut, no more rattles !...

...good luck !!

[Dave70]

you mean the tiny screws actually in the humbuckers themselves or the the ones in the pickguard? I’ve gone crazy with the pickguard screws and that’s not helped.

Yeah I meant the ones in the humbuckers.

[Benson-GB10]

I have a GB10 but I don't see any part like that (mine is from 2015).