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62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by Nayff » Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:49 pm

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I recently got myself a beautiful 62 reissue Jazzmaster and I love it all except a little question about the string spacing. All are great except it seems that the high e is particularly close to the edge of the fretboard. I don't have any way to measure it out right now but just, in general, are those nuts set up with that small space on purpose, or did I get a wonky one? There is a noticeable difference between the space from edge of board to low e and edge of board to high e

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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by andy_tchp » Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:58 pm

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There is a noticeable difference between the space from edge of board to low e and edge of board to high e
This is fairly common. Loosen neck screws a few turns, then 'bump' the neck straight. Re-tighten neck screws.
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by alexpigment » Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:11 pm

Sometimes the pickguard can be a problem in these cases too. When I've done this trick, I always unscrew the pickguard completely (but leave it on), do the trick Andy suggested, then put the screws back in the pickguard. In a rare case I had to file the pickguard around the neck pocket and redrill a screw or two.

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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by HNB » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:38 am

Never fails to amaze and disappoint me that you have so many people sign off on a guitar's inspection card and that none of them notice the neck isn't aligned right. Especially on a damn expensive guitar. LOL
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by HarlowTheFish » Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:23 pm

HNB wrote:
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Never fails to amaze and disappoint me that you have so many people sign off on a guitar's inspection card and that none of them notice the neck isn't aligned right. Especially on a damn expensive guitar. LOL
To be fair though, I've bought guitars where the in-hand pictures on the shipper's end were flawless, but I got it with the neck pretty noticeably shifted because it got bumped in shipping. The farther it needs to go between being put in a box for the first time and you pulling it out of said box, the more problems it'll give you.

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Post by HNB » Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:34 pm

That is true. My experience is about going to guitar stores and seeing misaligned guitar hanging with pride with the huge price tags hanging. :)
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by JSett » Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:44 pm

HNB wrote:
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That is true. My experience is about going to guitar stores and seeing misaligned guitar hanging with pride with the huge price tags hanging. :)
I've often wondered the same thing picking up a £1500-3000+ guitar that has clearly just been slid out of a box and hung up. Literally 10 mins with most guitars and you can sort so many little things out - guitar shops that don't bother deserve to not sell their guitars.
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by HNB » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:38 pm

It makes my faith in a guitar shop disappear when I see simple issues like that not dealt with. If I, as an amateur, can fix stuff I would hope pros could do better.
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by Nayff » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:41 pm

Just jumping back in here to say thanks for all who replied and both glad to see and sad to see that this doesn’t seem to be a rare problem. Glad there’s an easy fix but it is a bummer to hear that little things like this aren’t addressed by the shop/fender

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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by tequila_in_teacups » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:28 pm

HNB wrote:
Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:38 pm
It makes my faith in a guitar shop disappear when I see simple issues like that not dealt with. If I, as an amateur, can fix stuff I would hope pros could do better.
I'm not sure there are many guitar shops that have actual 'pros' on staff, though.

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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by timtam » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:41 pm

It's not just shifted necks. Fender released a whole line of guitars that had this problem, the original Am Pro (I) line. So much so that they had to put a bridge with narrower E-E spacing (52mm instead of 56mm) on the later versions of the Am Pro (I) to fix it.
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by JSett » Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:42 pm

tequila_in_teacups wrote:
Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:28 pm
HNB wrote:
Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:38 pm
It makes my faith in a guitar shop disappear when I see simple issues like that not dealt with. If I, as an amateur, can fix stuff I would hope pros could do better.
I'm not sure there are many guitar shops that have actual 'pros' on staff, though.
This is true, but a few hours of training could give any guitarist working there a few basic skills in setup to mitigate a lot of these minor gripes we have about off-the-shelf guitars. I'm sure 'pro' was meant as someone who's profession is selling guitars, not professional guitarist
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Re: 62' Reissue string spacing specs

Post by HarlowTheFish » Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:06 am

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:42 pm
I'm sure 'pro' was meant as someone who's profession is selling guitars, not professional guitarist
Can I just say that it's a fucking travesty that any guitar store (or hell, any store that sells tools for a specific, particular purpose) sells shit that's on the wall without making sure it's in good condition? I get if they don't wanna lower the nut and do fretwork and set the action super low or whatever (which can also be a personal preference thing, so IMO it's fine to leave until someone buys it so you can lower it as much as they want and not need to swap in a higher one if you've gone too far); but it's not that hard to make sure the pots turn, the neck is on straight, the tuners aren't sticking, and all that other super basic stuff that's under ~10min tops to do.

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