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[quote name='grumble' post='489939' date='May 16 2009, 12:01 PM']OK, here goes.. I've defretted a Peavey Milestone 3 and everything went well. Fitted the neck back on the body and strung it with some new Rotosound Jazz strings. Played a few scales around the fifth fret and everything seemed Ok but when I dropped down to the 1st/2nd fret region I found the strings were dead/buzzing. OK not a problem, raise the action and check intonation. The trouble is that now the action is a little high for my tastes and fingering around the 1st/2nd fret region is quite hard. A (guitard) friend has suggested shimming the neck, how would this help and how would I do it ? Any other ideas? On a plus note, I'm pleasantly suprised by my accuracy on the defretted Peavey. I'm still a sh*te player but now with a nicer tone [/quote] Having had my first defret job done prefessionally, I've done a few myself over the years and found that it's not as easy a job as it's made out to be. For starters, there may be neck issues which aren't apparent when the neck is fretted; bumps or dips in the fretboard to be inprecise. In addition, assuming you filled the fret slots with plastic wood or some other substance, either a paste or solid, if the finished job is either under or over sanded, buzz, especially with roundwound strings, will be the result. Since you're playing right on the removed fret, if the slot isn't properly filled or sanded, that may be the problem.

I've inquired on T-bird gig bags and the outside dimensions don't quite make it. My explorer requires 17" by 45" or so, yours may be even longer. I used to have a custom anvil case, but it weighed a ton and was huge and I don't tour so ditched it for the last move. Good luck dave quote name='Bloodaxe' date='Oct 22 2007, 11:14 PM' post='77998'] Tried that over the weekend at Eric Lindsey's in Catford (relicing while-U-wait), & the drat thing was [i]still[/i] poking out of the end. Admittedly that was the only local shop that had such a thing, so there may well be other brands that will take it. I really need something with shoulder straps as well - maybe a gigbag for a Thunderbird might work, they seem to be rather long beasts. Pete. [/quote]

One solution is to get a keyboard gig bag that fits, and load it with foam rubber, that's what I've done for my old parts-bass explorer dave [quote name='Bloodaxe' post='77968' date='Oct 22 2007, 07:33 PM']Fresh from the sylvan fields* of Parcel Farce's Charlton Depot: An Aria ZZB-Custom in "Bloody Red". I've only ever seen two of these, & the other one is in the catalogue scans over on the Matsumoku.org site - so they're a tad scarce. It's quite light, & very loud. The bridge appears to have been designed by the Pharmaceutical Dept at Aria, & it's a bugger to get it comfy when standing. It's also reluctant to fit most stands. A gigbag would be nice, but that may prove harder to find than Lord Lucan. As a result of this, I hereby proclaim myself GAS-free**. Pete. *[size=1](a lie)[/size] **[size=1](probably a lie)[/size][/quote]