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neilium
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Hey guys,
I haven't been here for a long while. Glad everyone's looking well. Enough small talk.
I took the baritone neck off of one of my Warmoth projects and replaced it with a regular neck. (I needed a spare guitar for a gig.) The replacement was a Mighty Mite maple strat neck that that fit fine, but there was a lot of buzz or choked bends on frets 13 to 18. I checked it with a smaller straight edge, and sure enough, there's a hump where the neck meets the body. I was able to fix it good enough for the gig by filing down frets 14 through 22, recrowning and polishing. When the next recrown time comes, though, it will mean sanding down the fretboard, refinishing and refretting that part of the neck (translation: get a new neck instead).
My question is: How did that hump occur? I got the neck out of a guitar shop's junk bin. It was used, but had almost no fret wear. Was it improperly shimmed? Did it hang on the rack too long? Bad luck?
Thanks in advance.
-n
And my follow-up: Since I have a baritone neck now with no string tension on it, should I loosen the truss rod or anything like that?
I haven't been here for a long while. Glad everyone's looking well. Enough small talk.
I took the baritone neck off of one of my Warmoth projects and replaced it with a regular neck. (I needed a spare guitar for a gig.) The replacement was a Mighty Mite maple strat neck that that fit fine, but there was a lot of buzz or choked bends on frets 13 to 18. I checked it with a smaller straight edge, and sure enough, there's a hump where the neck meets the body. I was able to fix it good enough for the gig by filing down frets 14 through 22, recrowning and polishing. When the next recrown time comes, though, it will mean sanding down the fretboard, refinishing and refretting that part of the neck (translation: get a new neck instead).
My question is: How did that hump occur? I got the neck out of a guitar shop's junk bin. It was used, but had almost no fret wear. Was it improperly shimmed? Did it hang on the rack too long? Bad luck?
Thanks in advance.
-n
And my follow-up: Since I have a baritone neck now with no string tension on it, should I loosen the truss rod or anything like that?