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Well I posted quite a few (yeah ok, a crapload) of topics about my model 1a to try to figure out what happened. The tech had a look and he found out in 1 minute:
The truss rod is loose inside. Not that it's been loosened too much, but the whole thing 'floats'. When you tap the back of the neck, it makes this hollow sound of the rod hitting the wood inside. Also, the nut wasn't well filed but I had spotted this. W00t.
Good news: I did make her play better, though still pretty unplayable. I had spotted the nut problem and I also had well seen that the frets didn't seem to be problematic
Bad news: 200 euros wasted.
On the JCF I'm on a model series neck that'll go on her and another Charvette neck that I'll then use for practise.
Which leaves me with a soon to be neck-ed model series body (good body. Resonant as hell)
And a spare neck to destroy
How do you take off a fingerboard? The way I'd do it:
1) take the frets, nuts, everything out
2) run a razor blade around the edges of it to eliminate laquer or glue holding it together
3) heat the end of it (latest frets) with an ironing thingy (for clothes)
4) slide a razor blade under and very softly lift it up, going deeper in
5) move the iron on very slowly, sliding the blade further and further, seperating the neck from the fingerboard.
But of course that's theory. Is this the correct way?
Thanks guys
The truss rod is loose inside. Not that it's been loosened too much, but the whole thing 'floats'. When you tap the back of the neck, it makes this hollow sound of the rod hitting the wood inside. Also, the nut wasn't well filed but I had spotted this. W00t.
Good news: I did make her play better, though still pretty unplayable. I had spotted the nut problem and I also had well seen that the frets didn't seem to be problematic
Bad news: 200 euros wasted.
On the JCF I'm on a model series neck that'll go on her and another Charvette neck that I'll then use for practise.
Which leaves me with a soon to be neck-ed model series body (good body. Resonant as hell)
And a spare neck to destroy
How do you take off a fingerboard? The way I'd do it:
1) take the frets, nuts, everything out
2) run a razor blade around the edges of it to eliminate laquer or glue holding it together
3) heat the end of it (latest frets) with an ironing thingy (for clothes)
4) slide a razor blade under and very softly lift it up, going deeper in
5) move the iron on very slowly, sliding the blade further and further, seperating the neck from the fingerboard.
But of course that's theory. Is this the correct way?
Thanks guys
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