Dudnote -> Relief and heat treatment (Jul. 8 2015 7:29:47)
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I am thinking of signing my basher blanca up for some heat treatment to flatten out the neck. If she could loose 1mm at the 12th it would be perfect - there's no twisting, or anything funky like that. She's a 2002 guitar from Granada, signed by a luthier, but given what I've read here & been told about the Granada school it wouldn't surprise me if she was factory made - her finish is almost bomb proof. I don't belief the humidity in Guadeloupe has made the relief problem any worse (perhaps it improved things ever so slightly, hard to say), she's always had a crazy banana neck and I've had her about 8 years (bought in Paris). Here is a rather sceptical review of the sort of thing I had in mind http://www.lutherie.net/neck.html. Despite being sceptical, the article does say "This works marvelously well on guitars needing just a bit of a reset." Anyone got any experience with this sort of technique for relief problems? Anyone got photos of the technique going horribly wrong on the look of the guitar? I'd appreciate your thoughts on this technique.
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