Post by tellyz on Dec 7, 2017 0:41:23 GMT -5
Howdy friends.
A mate dropped his Yamaha Trans Acoustic off for me to have a look and make some adjustments.
In my initial checks I discovered there is a 6 thou variation in the neck relief between string 1 and string 6, with a slight bump on the fret board on the treble side exactly where the neck relief is measured. Peculiar? Declarations of "take it back" started to form in our minds and on our lips.
Thinking out loud we agreed a 2-3th variation is what we've come to expect in our awesome vintage FG's.
Scratching our heads I got out my FG180-50th, same era, same factory, very similar design I'd hazard to guess, “That should be a fair comparison”. Took the measurement and to our surprise, 5 thou variation? "Well" we are thinking, as we both have the FG180-50th and accepted them as "great", "fantastic" and other grand statements! Umm, we accepted this not knowing before; do we accept it now with this TT-TA?
"Arrr" my friend declares, let’s check it against his FG180 red label circa 1967 which he was at my place to pick up. Great idea. To our surprise, about 1/2 thou variation from this 50 year old guitar. "Wow" we both declare, "the oldy is a goody".
I don't usually get new guitars on my bench, only older ones, so now we're left wondering, is a 5-6 thou neck relief variance acceptable on new modern guitars. Curiously many people are hesitant to look at old/vintage guitars as an option because of this type of problem, but is this what is readily accept in a brand new guitar?
Does anybody know what would be an acceptable variance from a new guitar that is not all that cheap, $1700.00 here in Australia?
We're both very interested to hear feed back about this.
