Phil Mailloux Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 I've got this old Japanese Squier bass with a totally warped neck. This piece of crap could be useful as a test bass for my homemade pickups. However, i'm too lazy to put the energy (and money) into building a new neck for it. Anybody here ever straightened a warped neck? Or maybe someone here owns Dan Erlewine's "Advanced Fretting vol.1" video and could explain to me how this is done? That would be nicer than me spending 50 bucks for it just for this one part of the DVD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 "just for this one part of the DVD" . It's a substantial part of the DVD. It's also ' The Fret-job from hell/the fret-job that just won't end ! '. That's what I call it anyway. It drives me nuts to watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Mailloux Posted August 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Howbout some insights on the fretjob from hell? At least what i'm about to get myself into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Let's just say that with warped necks where the t-rod is of little/no help, you can try Heat, compression fretting, and fret-board wood removal in the right area(s), and if you do all those things, the results are far from being predictable, and you can easily take it "too far" as what happened with Erlewine (although I don't mean to sound like I could do any better or even as well, but everytime I watch that video since the first time, I want to yell : " NO DAN, DON'T DO THAT ! " at a certain point of the video). Ok, now I will go back to staying away from the forum, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myka Guitars Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Just out of curiosity, why do you need a good playing neck for a pickup tester? Raise the action a bit and set the pickup height accordingly. You should have a decent test rig then. It would certainly be easier and allow you to spend more time with your pickups. Just a thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Mailloux Posted August 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Just out of curiosity, why do you need a good playing neck for a pickup tester? Raise the action a bit and set the pickup height accordingly. You should have a decent test rig then. It would certainly be easier and allow you to spend more time with your pickups. Just a thought... ← That certainly makes sense David, but right now the action is like 3/4" high at the 20th fret. It would be nicer just to be able to play a bit on it to test those pups instead of just playing open strings. After Soap's comments though, it looks like making a new neck might be less of a hassle. Well I do have an extra truss rod leftover and i've wanted to make a one piece neck for a while....hmmm... *thinking hard* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclej Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 seems like there were a couple of threads on this in the past. if memory serves the suggestion was to remove your truss rod nut, take a 2x4 the length of your neck and put a small block on each end..say close to 3/4" thick so that the middle of the neck is off of the 2x4 when placed fret board down. then clamp it in the middle pulling the neck into a bit of a back bow. heat it up a few times over a week or so with a hair dryer then replace your truss rod nut, unclamp it and hope that you've now got some control over it.. 'course i may just be imagining that there was such a thread but it seems like it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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