lucindrea Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 ok i'm redoing an old guitar i got a few years back .. one of those $5 garage sale ones ( no one on several forums knows what it is either , if your curious , check out http://www.lucindrea.com/guitar/what.html ) so after removing the acrylic paint , it turns out their is a decent wood grained body ... my problem is in the neck ... it's bowed , backwards .. in other words , with the truss as loose as it goes , placing the neck on a flat surface , frets down , their is space under the first 3 frets and also the 20th and 21st ... this isnt a matter of leveling frets as far as i can tell ... putting a stright edge allong the seam of the neck and the fretboard i can see the bend , it's slight , re-leveling the frets MIGHT work once it's stringed.. so my question is , how hard is this to fix .. can i pull off the fret board , sand the neck flat and re-do the board ... or am i better off just going and getting a replacement neck? ... i've never re-freted a neck so it would be an adventure for me ( although probly a good learnign exp ) and i really dont want to spend more on tools to do it then a new neck would cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feylya Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/warped.htm And this isn't really the right section of the forum to post this in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 You should be putting the straight-edge on the fret-board surface with the guitar strung to pitch, then see what's going on. But what kind of "straight-edge". When I say straight-edge for checking neck-bow, I mean an expensive precision ground one, not just a big piece of metal, or ruler, although some of those might be close enough, but some are not really straight enough for this kind of procedure. That tutorial is a "last resort". Often you can re-shape the fret-board surface to get it worked out in the end. Slim chance it will go perfectly without experience and proper tools. Turning the neck up-side-down and using the table surface as a "straight-edge". Not a good idea. That table top might have a little bow in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucindrea Posted September 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/warped.htm And this isn't really the right section of the forum to post this in. acctully i had about 3 windows open and i posted in the wrong one .. sorry aout that .. as for using the table to check ... it was just a quick check ( losts of buzzin on that neck and i figured i would look into it while i have it apart ) .. and when you get the same result on a table top , a pice of slate , and the top of a table saw , it's a good bet that the neck is the problem and not the table :-) ... i'll explore all my options before looking to that tutorial . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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