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I think he works at the same place in Ukraine as this lass: https://www.youtube.com/@TanyaShpachuk

this may have been the case when the neck was made, but if you fully slacken off the truss rod any time afterwards, then it may have picked up a bow one way or the other. the idea of the notched straightedges is that you get the fingerboard straight by adjusting the truss rod & only then level the frets. if you try to level the frets without the wood straight then you'll end up grinding down the frets either in the middle or at the two ends unnecessarily & probably introduce other issues.

are they white and gold or blue and black? either way, they're foul. & wtf is going on with that Tele scratchplate?

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really enjoyed that - a lot of the tunes of my youth,and, to be fair, my present too. the "goffolk" crossover works very well.

I have several, from someone's YoB, just not from mine.

half the people will always be below-averagely educated though.

Aus/NZ call it "Tall Poppy Syndrome": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

I just bought two pedals from @Schlippy - they arrived promptly, well packaged & do what it says on the tin. many thanks Ralph 👍

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am...Can you believe that, 2:30am!? Fortunately I was still up playing my bagpipes

if the body's not flat-topped - making the saddles considerably higher than the body end of the fretboard - then the pocket will be routed sloped slightly backwards to compensate. standard practise on Les Pauls & similar (glued-in neck on LPs of course, but you get the idea).

was it a real person or AI/chatbot though? the only thing I can think is that they want a VAT number so they know *not* to charge you VAT on fees if you have one. if you don't have one then they will need to charge you. I suspect something's being lost in translation between 'mercan & English.

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