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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Well, since my 1869 appears to not have actually sold, I'm toying around with the idea of getting the fretboard fixed and then trying again. The neck is great, but the fretboard itself looks like it really needs to be completely replaced, or at least rebuilt (?).
Has anyone had a new board put on an existing neck, and if so what's the damage? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by edensharvest:
Has anyone had a new board put on an existing neck As far as I know, you need to replace the entire neck. Getting just the fretboard removed from the rest of the neck is next to impossible.
What exactly is wrong with the fretboard? They can remove the frets, plane it down and make it look like new and the refret it. It's a big job ($$$) but maybe cheaper than a whole new neck. I had this done to one of my Adamas. Best to contact the factory. Anything I know is 2nd hand info at best.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | There's a crack at the 15th fret under the fretwire that has "puckered" the neck at that fret, resulting in a little buzz on the low E string above about #12, and I have to shim the bridge up really high to make the action level overall, which is not how I prefer to have it.
It also looks like at the first fret the board is coming up slightly from the neck at the nut, though I could be wrong on that one. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Here's a picture of what I'm talking about:
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Location: SoCal | Send the pic to Kim or John and get a ballpark estimate (they've got to see it in person to give an accurate cost). |
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Location: closely held secret | On my beheaded 1624 the fretboard was delaminating from the neck. Badly.
Of course, now I can't tell there was ever anything wrong with it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You could remove frets 13, 14, 15 and 16. I mean, that sounds pretty horrible but if you don't play up that high nad you want a really sheap repair that would 100% fix the problem, why not? |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Tupperware:
You could remove frets 13, 14, 15 and 16. I mean, that sounds pretty horrible but if you don't play up that high nad you want a really sheap repair that would 100% fix the problem, why not? Would you do this on any of your guitars, Dave? For some reason, I can't see you playing a guitar with a few of the frets removed. (Me either) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | OH YES! I did it on my Celeb. Mando. The thing was a piece of crap as far as quality. Big hump where the neck joined the body and the whole plywood top was sinking. Would have been a far costlier repair than the damn thing was worth. So I filed down a bunch of the frets in the effected region and it worked out fine. Because I only filed down to the tangs it "looked" like it still had frets. It was still a piece of crap, but at least it was playable until I found something better. Dave |
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Location: North Idaho | Not too long ago, I was talking with the mothership about how much I could take off the backside of a neck. Kim told me not to worry... if I got too carried away as he could put a new neck on for $500. |
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