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06-04-2010, 06:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | | Action on my Framus is too high...
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This is my Framus bass: 
It's a cool bass but it would be really nice if the action wasn't so high.
The problem is that the bridge pickup is much higher off the top of the body than the neck pickup is. The photo below shows how close the strings are to the bridge pickup. I'm as close as I can get. 
Because of the height of that bridge pickup, my action is super high... 
I don't know what to do to get it any lower. The only idea I can come up with is to remove the bridge pickup and just leave the neck pickup in.
Anyone have any better ideas? |
06-04-2010, 07:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Had a similar problem on an old Japanese hollowbody guitar. Some work had to be done to the neck--what kind of neck joint is this? looks glued? |
06-04-2010, 07:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | | It's a bolt-on. |
06-04-2010, 07:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: MS Gulf Coast | | | Neck angle. Is it a bolt-on? If so, shim the pocket to add some tilt-back to the neck.
Not a bolt-on? Then you have problems...
(Is the neck really supposed to sit that high above the body?) |
06-04-2010, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ohio | | | That is a super cool bass. Unfortunately it looks like it's caving in a bit at the neck joint. From the looks it would be well worth repairing though. I'm a brave amateur, but I wouldn't try a home fix there!
Good luck with it. I'm sure a good luthier could fix it right up. |
06-04-2010, 08:19 PM
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Builder: ThorBass | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: NH | | | Well, it looks like it's a TOM, can you just lower the pickup and the TOM? |
06-04-2010, 08:37 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | i agree...the body looks caved in at the neck. take it to a shop before it gets worse. the pickups can go way lower than that, though. i could get my framus pickups (same ones, different bass...i had a strato star solidbody) down pretty far. but there's definitely something wrong with it.
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06-04-2010, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Son of Magni  Well, it looks like it's a TOM, can you just lower the pickup and the TOM? | What do you mean by TOM? Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM i agree...the body looks caved in at the neck. take it to a shop before it gets worse. the pickups can go way lower than that, though. i could get my framus pickups (same ones, different bass...i had a strato star solidbody) down pretty far. but there's definitely something wrong with it. | I don't see any way I can get the pickups to got down any lower. There's screws on the sides, but they don't lower or raise the pickup at all. |
06-04-2010, 08:55 PM
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Vice President, Merchandising KMC/FMIC | | | | | I agree that it is a neck angle problem. It appears that the neck block has shrunk.
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06-04-2010, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | | Confirmed. I just undid those 2 screws. They keep the pickup attached to it's housing. The housing is attached to the body of the instrument via 4 screws, one in each corner. Funny thing is, I can't get to the end of the lead wire. It's like it's sandwiched in there.
Also, the body looks caved but the finish is fine. I'm no expert, but if the physical form of the body were to change that much, wouldn't there be some evidence of this in the finish? Like cracking or checking? I honestly think this thing was just poorly made. |
06-04-2010, 09:25 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | not always. and framus was cheap stuff, but it wasn't so poorly made that there would be a big gap under the neck pickup bezel like that from the factory. stuff like that only happens over time.
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06-04-2010, 09:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM not always. and framus was cheap stuff, but it wasn't so poorly made that there would be a big gap under the neck pickup bezel like that from the factory. stuff like that only happens over time. | I just took the neck off and there's a shim underneath. I took it out and now for some reason I can't get the screws back in. This is getting frustrating.
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06-04-2010, 10:14 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | shop time. you'll be glad you did.
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06-04-2010, 10:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | | Looking that way. But I am sure this thing came out of the factory in piss poor shape. There are just minor things that are way off. If you look at that first pic, the headstock isn't even cut symmetrically. You can see how cockeyed it is. The tuning machines aren't straight. I still like the bass... but it's definitely shoddy. Lots of corners were cut when it was made. It does sound nice though, closer to an upright than any other electric I've heard. The body is just huge. I already have one bass in the shop... it may be a while before I can bring this one in.
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06-07-2010, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by hankazoid What do you mean by TOM? | Tune O Matic bridge style I think | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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