Somewhat big problem... how would you fix this?

[yard dawg]

Hey Rob has Jeremy made things right yet? I hope you get this worked out.

[joelayres]

All of the "here's how I would fix it's" are why it is frightening to buy a guitar online. Anyone paying good money for an instrument deserves something that is right. If it has been repaired, it should be done right - not jerry-rigged.

[RobRR]

All of the "here's how I would fix it's" are why it is frightening to buy a guitar online. Anyone paying good money for an instrument deserves something that is right. If it has been repaired, it should be done right - not jerry-rigged.

EXACTLY! You get it. Im not rigging this guitar in any way, shape, or form.

And the guitar is still sittin here.. no word yet.

[RD]

EXACTLY! You get it. Im not rigging this guitar in any way, shape, or form.

And the guitar is still sittin here.. no word yet.

Anything yet Rob?

[RobRR]

The guitar is at Jackson... has been there for a while. I know absolutley nothing at this point, I have no idea whats goin on.

[Shibs]

This is one of the reasons that I am a Bolt On Neck Guy! Trying to fix this type of problem can be somewhat tough or even impossible! I like the my RR's and Soloists, but I have to say..... The bolt ons are so easy!

[Aaronharmon]

Guys, its a used guitar...

Used guitar or not, that is a stupid manufacturing mistake. If you have the build tag make sure you include so they know whos check to take the repair out of. That is just plain sloppy.

[Genebaby]

Wow, this takes me back to my beloved (cough) GMW! Like has been pointed out, why does this guitar not have a proper shelf for the nut. My GMW is like this and effed up too.

Here's a pic of how it was.



On a guitar I paid a lot of money for new and waited two years it should have been fixed properly by Lee but it never was. He put in a bigger screw or something, but with it's other issues it was worth putting a whole new fretboard on locally and getting on.

I am VERY interested to see how Jackson deal with this, as GMW showed their true colours with my guitar, which was a bolt on, so I wanted a new neck, but no go there.

[RobRR]

Oh shit I think I remember that, isnt that where they laminated the fretboard?

[Genebaby]

Yes, that's the one, but don't worry, I'm sure Jackson didn't do anything like that in this case. The lack of a shelf for the nut is interesting and a worry at the same time. Until my stuffed up GMW I had not seen under a nut where you could see the rod. Like you said, nothing out of Japan would be like this.

Another point, I have a different guitar where the spring cavity cover won't fit because of the angles involved. It was unexpected, but not a worry as I bought the guitar quite cheap to do a complete refin on so we'll probably route the cavity a bit deeper to fix it, along with a few other issues it has. Plays quite well as it is but is rough around the edges. It was built by a guy in the US trying to become a guitar builder. He did better than I would, but it's not quite top notch work. I just found the link to the build, check it out.

http://www.tjmonster.com/trev.htm