Neck on an acoustic

Pbassred · #1 06-30-2009, 03:12 AM

I'm being offered an Aston Acoustic bass ( I think its a ACB100CEQ). Not my usual standard of instrument, but ok for jamming in the the park. Basicly the construction is a big acoustic guitar - fixed bridge, fixed neck.

The trouble with it is that playing at 1st fret causes buzzing on 2nd fret. Slightly less from 2nd to 3rd. from there its ok.

The neck is flat so I could back the truss rod off, but I think this might raise the action too much. I could take some meat out of the bridge but there's only about 1/8 before I'm down to the wood. Thats a bit worrying, but then Iremember buying a 6 string with the same problems (not as bad) 20 years ago - and I'm still playing it. So is that "just the way they are"?

Pbassred · #2 06-30-2009, 06:46 AM

HA!
The guy left it with me for a while so I got a chance to really look at it. I looks like the 2nd fret is high, so I need to look at how to stone frets properly.

Cheap instrument = chance to learn risk free.

ByF · #3 06-30-2009, 08:23 AM

Make sure that fret isn't loose before you start filing on it. If it has popped up, it will go down when your file passes over it, then pop up again. You might need to knock it down with a soft mallet, or glue it down.

Ed