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Post subject: Re: knot in the maple doing damage to my fender strat neck.
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:38 am
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Ceri wrote:
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Hi Ceri

Thank you for your informative reply! Yes the shop I went into was Manson's but I don't think it was either of the two you mentioned above who had a look at the bass. We've discussed possible solutions of redressing the fretboard, and redo the fretwork to make it relatively flat... But I'm a bit reluctant to that as the original rosewood fingerboard was pretty thin. It'd be brilliant if the neck can be straightened for sure. In what ways can that be achieved?

Thanks again, Fred

Hi again Fred: well, if you look at my post on page four of this thread you'll see my home-spun solution to this issue. That was a neck that had a very pronounced backbow at the seventh fret. My fix took time, but I own that guitar to this day and the problem has never come back, so it worked.

Proper grown-up builders like Hugh Manson have specialist items of luthier kit a bit like electrically heated blankets that they can wrap around the neck once it's cramped into position, which speeds things up: the heat loosens and resets the wood fibres and used skillfully can straighten even a severely warped neck.

I'd go back to Manson's and ask to speak to Adrian Ashton and see if Hugh is up for doing that sort of work (Adrian is a brilliant bass player, by the way). Otherwise, there's Chris Eccleshall, who's website says he's now in Ipplepen (he was in Buckfastleigh last I knew, and Dartington before that - you can't tie that man down!). Chris is an absolutely fabulous builder who's made and repaired guitars for umpteen famous people (see his homepage) and he's also an authorised Martin and Gibson repairer, so straightening your bass neck should be no problem for him. Here he is:

http://www.eccleshallguitars.co.uk/

And if none of that works, type "guitar maker Devon" into Google - there's loads of 'em, including lots of interesting names I haven't even heard of. Good grief, Devon seems to be the guitar county!

Fixing your neck really shouldn't be too hard, and I'd definitely want to try straightening the warp before I thought about remedial stuff like re-levelling the frets to try and hide the kink. Better to solve than to cover up, if possible.

And if somehow all of that fails or just seems too expensive you could always simply have Fender replace the neck. See my previous post for how to do that.

Any help?

Cheers - C


Thank you so much Ceri!

I have taken the bass back to Manson's. Although Hugh himself doesn't take much repair work any more, another guy who's been doing repairs in the shop for 15 years had a look at it, and was surprised how bad the bent is (it is an actual V shaped bent rather than a curve). They've taken the bass for some heat treatment and fret dressing. Fingers crossed for it to come back with the glory it should have.

Thanks again and I'll post with any updates I have. :)


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