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Post subject: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:15 am
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Hello,

I'm new to the forum, so please excuse me if I'm posting in the wrong section.

I have a Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s which buzzes all over the fretboard. I can't locate the source of the buzz and I've tried everything from raising the saddles, adjusting the truss rod (made it a few degrees more concave), changing string gauge and readjusting the intonation, blocking the tremolo system, dressing everything that could add unwanted vibration in cotton-wool, lowering the pickups so as to prevent the strings from entering their magnetic field (this was my best guess because it sounded exactly like that's what was happening), but I've had no progress whatsoever. There is nothing wrong with the neck on the outside, all frets are where they should be and are quite new.
To expand on the buzz: it is no regular loose fret type of buzz. I would describe it as a wavy sort of irregularity in the output, as opposed to a choppy, sharp irregularity that would come from a loose fret. It doesn't affect the sustain either, like a loose fret would. But if you leave a note hanging for more than a second, it will occur. The problem affects the entire neck, but it intensifies as you move up the fretboard and becomes undeniable above the 14th fret. Also the more driven the tone, the more ample the fluctuation becomes (yet there's nothing wrong with the pickups, because I've tested one of them on a different guitar - the middle and neck are factory standard and the bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan singlebucker that I've installed myself).

Any suggestions on where this "buzz" might be coming and what I could do about it ? I'd like to attach an audio sample as well, but I don't know if I have that option on this forum.

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Winston.


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:03 pm
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Hi Winstong,
Well you don't say if you're the original owner, but I'll throw a word in anyways....
http://customcare.fender.com/service.php

The folks on that link were hand picked by the service team at Fender because of their knowledge, skill and good service on Fender Custom Shop guitars.
You might wanna give them a call and/or perhaps get your guitar to one of them to have a look. If its a warranty covered problem.....well there ya go....it'll be covered.

All the best,
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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:43 am
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Thanks for the reply, Rob. Unfortunately I don't live in any of the states mentioned in the link above. Anyway, the guitar's warranty has expired and I'd rather fix it myself than take it to a luthier. I was hoping for a hint about what I should be focusing on. My new hypothesis is that there's something wrong with the truss rod, or with the channel that the truss rod passes through. Could that be a source for extra vibration ?


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:25 am
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By the way, if it helps, its serial number is: MZ8296915.


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:54 am
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Winstong wrote:
By the way, if it helps, its serial number is: MZ8296915.

That's the serial number of a Made In Mexico (MIM) guitar from 2008-2009, not a Custom Shop one.


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:21 pm
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arth1 wrote:
Winstong wrote:
By the way, if it helps, its serial number is: MZ8296915.

That's the serial number of a Made In Mexico (MIM) guitar from 2008-2009, not a Custom Shop one.



In which case you can get it to any Fender authorized service center. Depending on what the problem is......and its hard to tell by your description (sorry!), it may still be covered.

http://www.fender.com/dealers/service-centers/

Hope that helps a bit.
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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:50 pm
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This guitar is a custom shop designed guitar but not built by the custom shop. They are nice guitars though.


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:54 am
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It is a custom shop Mexican model designed by Greg Fessler. It has the custom shop logo on the metal plate behind the neck.
But a neck is still a neck, no matter what ethnicity the person who assembles it has.


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Fender Classic Player 60s - buzz trouble
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:49 am
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There is no Mexican custom shop. Your neck plate says custom shop designed and yes Greg did design them but that's it. It does sound very frustrating check the wood at the two point trem I have seen it crack at one of the posts. I would take it to a repair shop and have it looked at. Sometimes another set of eyes on it can find something you might overlook. Good luck with it. I do like them a lot. I wish I still had mine.


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