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Joined: December 2001 Posts: 7209
Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | This isn't exactly about an Ovation, but it's certainly guitar related and I guess could easily be about an Ovation, it just isn't this time.
Now that you are totally confused...
Has anyone experienced the laquer on the fretboard flaking off in pieces? A friend of mine as a nice Made In USA Strat, only a few years old, and in the area of the money frets the laquer has shipped out in a few places, especially along the upper edge (like where your thumb might touch if you reach around). There doesn't seem to be any problem on the bottom side of the neck where the hand obviously rests all the time.
Anyone have any thoughts? Do USA Made Fenders have a similar lifetime Warantee if you are the original owner? Has this or can this happen on an Ovation? |
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Joined: November 2002 Posts: 3598
Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I've heard aftershave lotions are deadly on guitar finishes. Don't know if that helps, or adds to the confusion. |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | This is not uncommon on Fenders with maple necks & fingerboards, I can't recall ever seeing the same condition on an Ovation. |
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Joined: February 2003 Posts: 299
Location: Netherlands | I happened to notice the same on the back (not the fingerboard) of my japanese ibanez roadstar II form '86.
I had the same once when i painted a table with alkyd-resin (don't know if that's called the same in english). This had to do with moisture in the wood not being able to 'breathe out' through the resin.
I don't know about warranty issues.
Martin |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 1817
Location: Minden, Nebraska | I can't speak to the warranty question, as I am not a dealer and have never bought a new Fender.
But I do know from extensive experience that maple fretboard Strats from the early and mid-nineties are notorious for flaking on the fretboard edges. Most of what I have seen are on the treble side of the board, tho I have seen it on the bass side and on the heel edge, too.
The problem usually stabilizes and in just about all of the cases I have seen does not effect playability. But on one of the worse afflicted fretboards a tech cut out a bit of the old maple and put in a wooden filler piece and sealed it.
I, too, have never seen this problem on an Ovation fretboard and that is consistent for several hundred of them.
About those pesky finish cracks, tho..... |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 18
Location: blkyn usa | I concur with Paul B. It should stabilize and won't affect playablity. It''s character. If he wants to get rid of it a good electric luthier can refinish the neck, but if it plays good, why bother? |
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