Mickeyboro Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I have a bass that may need this doing and have no idea of the cost/complication that might be involved. Can anyone enlighten me please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 As the saying goes...'it depends' It ranges from difficult but doable, to difficult and risky, to nigh impossible. What bass is it? And is it a set neck or through neck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 1 minute ago, Andyjr1515 said: As the saying goes...'it depends' It ranges from difficult but doable, to difficult and risky, to nigh impossible. What bass is it? And is it a set neck or through neck? Also, what problem are you trying to solve? There are many ways to skin a cat (although, admittedly, most of them feel the same to the cat ) 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 It’s a set neck. Since being last set up, the action has been much worse from the eighth fret upwards which my local guitar shop says means neck needs a reset. Also there is no play left in the bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 What bass model is it? Was the action OK before the last set up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 A Guild B301. Fretless, if that’s relevant. Action was okay before. Same gauge of strings used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Well, the first thing that comes to mind is to get someone competent to undo whatever was done at the last set-up! But it may not be as simple as that Do you know if the trussrod is working normally? And if you hold the G down to the fretboard near the nut at the same time as holding it down at the 19th fret position - what kind of gap have you got in the middle of those two points (round about the 8th fret position) between the bottom of the string and the fretboard. Is it hard down? Or a gap close to the thickness of a business card? Or a gap of a few mm or more? To answer your original question, having done a bit of searching, yes, it probably is possible to remove and reset the neck...but, looking at the design of the neck pocket and joint, it is not easy and not without risk. But it is very unlikely, if if was fine before that last set up, that the neck does need resetting. What is maybe more of a possibility is that the truss rod is massively away from a correct setting/ or inoperative/or broken. The above test will give us a clue which of those it is. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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