1967 fender Coronado refret

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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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Rob, good progress here with heat and clamps. Getting closer each time. Should be fine!

Yours weren't ebony boards by chance?
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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GrantB wrote:Rob, good progress here with heat and clamps. Getting closer each time. Should be fine!

Yours weren't ebony boards by chance?
Both were Rosewood.

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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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GrantB wrote:
Check the neck for drop off at the first fret end...a somewhat typical Fender characteristic.
SO presumably that happens some years after leaving the factory.... what do you think it is caused by?

Neck to thin in that area?
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jvpp wrote:
GrantB wrote:
Check the neck for drop off at the first fret end...a somewhat typical Fender characteristic.
SO presumably that happens some years after leaving the factory.... what do you think it is caused by?

Neck to thin in that area?
Wasn't aware of this. Also interested in the cause and cure.

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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.

It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.

It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.

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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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Oh, and a poor fret job can contribute too. Tang vs slot mismatch.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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robnobcorncob wrote:
GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.

It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.
Wood has this amazing memory effect too. You think you have it fixed, only for the back bow to appear 6 months later. When clamping.
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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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I love my new home modified $7 fret clippers and bunnings fret hammer :)
take that stew Mac!!!!

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Re: 1967 fender Coronado refret

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GrantB wrote:
robnobcorncob wrote:
GrantB wrote:In my experience, over tightened truss rod for most of a guitars life, or simply maple that wants to move that way...which has a bit to do with the cut of the grain etc.

It can be fixed but it's a right biatch. Sometimes removing wood is the only option.
Agreed with all of the above, unfortunately mine were both in the wood removing category. If I could have clamped with heat I would have.
Wood has this amazing memory effect too. You think you have it fixed, only for the back bow to appear 6 months later. When clamping.
First US Strat I ever bought was a CBS maple neck jobbie. The seller had left it for about six months with no strings. I had it put in a jig for a couple of weeks in the hope it'd come right but it wouldn't.... :-( I was gutted. Was so proud of my 'real' Strat. In the end I put massive strings and high action on it and traded it at a Liverpool guitar store for an Ibanez Destroyer! :headslap:

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