Walter Broes
Enlightened Member
While I still think the Newark Street guitars are not a bad deal at all - they're cheap, and even cheaper used - I'm wondering if anyone's running into similar developments with theirs :
I have a black one I bought some three years ago, and I've customized it some (Bigsby, tune-a-matic, screwed the bridge base down and put old Franzes on it, and moved the lead pickup to "where it's supposed to sit") and used it quite a bit.
I usually put in a fairly sturdy gig bag, and the couple of times I've been on planes with it, I put it in a case. I don't baby it, but I certainly don't throw it around or treat it rough.
A good friend has a sunburst one he got about a year ago, and we're both running into the same thing : the fretboard extenstion has lifted up to the extent it chokes the strings. Hasn't been a real problem up until recently because my action isn't crazy low, but now I'm getting a fairly bad buzz on the bass strings that I traced to the end of the fretboard extension.
My buddy had exactly the same thing happen to his - he managed to solve the problem by grinding down the last couple of frets, so it didn't need un-fretting/planing/refretting, but it might in the future.
It's a fairly typical thing for archtops with a floating neck extension to happen, but I didn't expect it to happen THIS soon!
I guess it's a difference in humidity between where the guitar was built and where it ended up living that causes this?
Anyone else run into this with their NS X175?
I have a black one I bought some three years ago, and I've customized it some (Bigsby, tune-a-matic, screwed the bridge base down and put old Franzes on it, and moved the lead pickup to "where it's supposed to sit") and used it quite a bit.
I usually put in a fairly sturdy gig bag, and the couple of times I've been on planes with it, I put it in a case. I don't baby it, but I certainly don't throw it around or treat it rough.
A good friend has a sunburst one he got about a year ago, and we're both running into the same thing : the fretboard extenstion has lifted up to the extent it chokes the strings. Hasn't been a real problem up until recently because my action isn't crazy low, but now I'm getting a fairly bad buzz on the bass strings that I traced to the end of the fretboard extension.
My buddy had exactly the same thing happen to his - he managed to solve the problem by grinding down the last couple of frets, so it didn't need un-fretting/planing/refretting, but it might in the future.
It's a fairly typical thing for archtops with a floating neck extension to happen, but I didn't expect it to happen THIS soon!
I guess it's a difference in humidity between where the guitar was built and where it ended up living that causes this?
Anyone else run into this with their NS X175?