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Post subject: Classic vibe 60 ' rosewood board not so good...
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:06 am
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i recently got a classic vibe 50's in LPB, I love it, fantastic guitar for the meoney, so I decided to add a 60's to my collection, upon first inspection i liked it a lot, thought the board looked a klittle dry, but easily fixed, played about 15 minutes and noticed aome light black on my fretting heand fingers....throught possibly from unpacking?

Heres a right after I got it, played about about 15 minutes then took photos (white guard is laid over the original to see how it might look)

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You can already see some slight oddity where my fingers contacted the board, oh well, a nice cleaning and oiling will fix that . Sprayed it down with dunlops fretboard cleaner, 2 minutes later my rag looked liked this

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and the board like this,

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I find this totally unacceptable, is this normal for the vibe 60" or did I get a bad one that slipped through?any advice is welcome and appriciated


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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:14 am
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I'm not sure where to turn, how to contact fender about this, I could either return it to MF and get something else, or try for an exchange and "hope" I dont get the same or worse.....I've read nothing but good things about these, and no word of problems like this.....HELP!!!

(this want a bump, I was having trouble adding this to the original post so I replied instead of scrolling down constantly between words....)

Thanks in advance!


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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:48 am
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i'd return it, it's obviously fualty, phone up the place you got it from first


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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:20 am
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Yeah there is definitely something wrong going on there. I have a Classic Vibe 60s and it's perfect. No issues at all with the fretboard. I'd take it back.

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:59 pm
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I've played one and the fretboard looked nothing like that. Maybe they put something on the fretboard to make it look aged? I don't know.

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:51 pm
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I have to agree, I'd take it back. My Classic Vibe 60's fretboard looks nothing like that. I play the crap out of mine and never had anything rub off on my fingers, or have black come off the fretboard when wiping it down other than a little dirt.

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:07 pm
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MF was cool about taking it back, and I'm gonna try another. I'd really like to hear what someone from Fender has to say about this though, mines the only one i've heard of any trouble like this from the vibes line, and its a pretty serious flaw....isolated incident, bad run? ....


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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:38 am
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There are rare cases when Musicians Friend gets mix ups and sells returned stock as new - it looks like someone tried to stain the fretboard and wasn't very successful.


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that is sure a messy fret board you got there.... :?

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