1967 fender Coronado refret
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Rob, good progress here with heat and clamps. Getting closer each time. Should be fine!
Yours weren't ebony boards by chance?
Yours weren't ebony boards by chance?
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Both were Rosewood.GrantB wrote:Rob, good progress here with heat and clamps. Getting closer each time. Should be fine!
Yours weren't ebony boards by chance?
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
SO presumably that happens some years after leaving the factory.... what do you think it is caused by?GrantB wrote:
Check the neck for drop off at the first fret end...a somewhat typical Fender characteristic.
Neck to thin in that area?
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Wasn't aware of this. Also interested in the cause and cure.jvpp wrote:SO presumably that happens some years after leaving the factory.... what do you think it is caused by?GrantB wrote:
Check the neck for drop off at the first fret end...a somewhat typical Fender characteristic.
Neck to thin in that area?
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.
It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.
It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Oh, and a poor fret job can contribute too. Tang vs slot mismatch.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
Wood has this amazing memory effect too. You think you have it fixed, only for the back bow to appear 6 months later. When clamping.robnobcorncob wrote:Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.
It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
I love my new home modified $7 fret clippers and bunnings fret hammer
take that stew Mac!!!!
take that stew Mac!!!!
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret
First US Strat I ever bought was a CBS maple neck jobbie. The seller had left it for about six months with no strings. I had it put in a jig for a couple of weeks in the hope it'd come right but it wouldn't.... I was gutted. Was so proud of my 'real' Strat. In the end I put massive strings and high action on it and traded it at a Liverpool guitar store for an Ibanez Destroyer! :headslap:GrantB wrote:Wood has this amazing memory effect too. You think you have it fixed, only for the back bow to appear 6 months later. When clamping.robnobcorncob wrote:Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.
It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.