expirediconian | Staff posted Jun 10, 2023 12:30 AM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Jun 10, 2023 12:30 AM
Ibanez GIO Series GSR200 Electric Bass Guitar (Transparent Red)
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Take the time to learn how to properly set up a bass. There are so many resources on YouTube for doing so. Chances are with rapid environmental changes during transit and the nature of wood, there are going to be some fret sprouting, which a few minutes of sanding will fix.
There's no reason to pay $50+ for the fancy tools from StewMac unless you're a professional luthier working on $1500+ guitars.
Explanation...
Most guitars made in China or Indonesia, which means every cheap guitar, have some amount of fret sprout.
This is because wood expands and contracts with humidity, and a lot of places in the USA are less humid than Indonesia or China.
Then the neck shrinks slightly, which makes the frets stick out the side of the fretboard a little.
Fix: file down the outside edges of the frets. Take a fine file and run it LENGTHWISE down the edge of the neck at a slightly higher angle than the frets are cut at.
This is easy until you get to the body of the guitar, where I usually don't bother on a cheap guitar because I'm not going to feel them there anyway.
This is a lot trickier with maple fretboards because they're usually sealed with poly and you don't want to nick the finish.
With pau ferro, rosewood, or any dark fretboard that you oil (like this Gio), it doesn't matter if you nick the fretboard a bit. In fact, a lot of people file down the outside edges of the fretboard to make them less sharp!
You can fix fret sprout with a regular hardware store file.
There's no reason to pay $50+ for the fancy tools from StewMac unless you're a professional luthier working on $1500+ guitars.
Explanation...
Most guitars made in China or Indonesia, which means every cheap guitar, have some amount of fret sprout.
This is because wood expands and contracts with humidity, and a lot of places in the USA are less humid than Indonesia or China.
Then the neck shrinks slightly, which makes the frets stick out the side of the fretboard a little.
Fix: file down the outside edges of the frets. Take a fine file and run it LENGTHWISE down the edge of the neck at a slightly higher angle than the frets are cut at.
This is easy until you get to the body of the guitar, where I usually don't bother on a cheap guitar because I'm not going to feel them there anyway.
This is a lot trickier with maple fretboards because they're usually sealed with poly and you don't want to nick the finish.
With pau ferro, rosewood, or any dark fretboard that you oil (like this Gio), it doesn't matter if you nick the fretboard a bit. In fact, a lot of people file down the outside edges of the fretboard to make them less sharp!
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