62' Reissue string spacing specs
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62' Reissue string spacing specs
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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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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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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 guitaristtequila_in_teacups wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:28 pmI'm not sure there are many guitar shops that have actual 'pros' on staff, though.
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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.johnnysomersett wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:42 pmI'm sure 'pro' was meant as someone who's profession is selling guitars, not professional guitarist