Hey folks, just got my Status Graphite placement neck on my Precision a little while ago. I've gotten the action low and the neck close to straight. I've played other basses with the exact same setup I'm trying to get with the Status, and I've never had a problem before, so it's not my technique or the setup itself.
But the first and second frets buzz so much on the Status neck they're unplayable. When I press the strings down at the third fret, the space under the string at the fourth fret looks and feels normal, whereas the space under the string at the third fret when the second fret is pressed down is too low. There is even less space under the string at the second fret when the first fret is pressed down. The nut looks a little too high and can't possibly have anything to do with it.
Obviously I'm in for a fret job. But guitar technicians around Chicago tend to not understand what "low action" on a bass guitar really means. Every guy I've gone to has just told me to raise the action, as if it's a problem of how low the bridge saddles are. And it can't be because I've had this action work on basses before.
I'm a little dissapointed in the neck itself, but obviously the Status shop guys couldn't put it on a bass to check out what was going on with the fretwork before shipping the neck to me in the States.
Does anybody have any advice for how I can explain this to the [i]next [/i]guitar technician I try to take my bass into? Or better yet, can anybody give me some advice as to what I can do in the meantime?