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Neck angled wrong on 3120?
Recently, I bought an RG3120 from a friend. It's a 2003 model. Just in case anyone doesn't know, the 3120 is a bolt on neck. The guitar is perfect, but another guy I know, who professional works on guitars, pointed out that the neck is set into the guitar at an angle. Just to clarify, the neck itself isn't twisted or warped or anything (just had it set up by another luthier last week). It is simply set INTO THE GUITAR at an ANGLE. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures yet, but let me attempt to describe what it looks like:
If you were to hold the guitar, as if you were about to play it, and looked at the dots on the side of the fretboard (not the ones on the actual fretboard where you PLAY; the ones on the side of the fretboard/ neck) and followed them down ... at the 19th fret to the 24th fret, you would see an increase in distance from the dot to where the rest of the neck's side meets the body of the guitar. So, what this means is that the neck was set at an angle into the guitar, causing it to be tilted towards whoever is holding the guitar, rather than being STRAIGHT DOWN into the body.
The guy who noticed this flaw said that it's not THAT big of a deal because he could just take the neck off, angle it straight down and put something underneath the problem area and it would be fine, but he recommended not even bothering with it.
However, he said that if I wanted lower action (which I do), the higher frets would choke because they are raised a little due to the neck being angled improperly. I actually noticed that when I had set the action lower, the higher frets WERE choking out and I was wondering why.
Anyway, my questions are:
1. If I set the neck properly and place a shim (I think that's the word he used?) underneath te problem area, how much difference will that make in adjusting the action on the higher frets?
2. Will the intonation need to be completely redone after resetting the neck?
All help is greatly appreciated...
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