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1986 studio standard has dive on fretboard . WTF!

Capt Brad

Capt Brad

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Hard to photo. Straight edge goes 1 thru 17 and then dives .010 to 22nd.
Truss rod was tight and made it worse!
At full relief/loose this is the measurement.
 
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Are you having a problem ?

This sounds like fall-away has been ground into the frets from a refret or fret dress. Fall-away helps give a little more clearance over the body for string vibrations and FB distortion over the body. It's more common for acoustics but can be useful on electrics, especially fenders. That shouldn't cause any problems. The truss rod is there to compensate for string tension and its focus is around the 7th fret or halfway between the nut and the join with the body. Once that area is flat you're maxed it can't do anything useful at the high frets except by adding unwanted backbow.
 
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RandK said:
Are you having a problem ?

This sounds like fall-away has been ground into the frets from a refret or fret dress. Fall-away helps give a little more clearance over the body for string vibrations and FB distortion over the body. It's more common for acoustics but can be useful on electrics, especially fenders. That shouldn't cause any problems. The truss rod is there to compensate for string tension and its focus is around the 7th fret or halfway between the nut and the join with the body. Once that area is flat you're maxed it can't do anything useful at the high frets except by adding unwanted backbow.
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I will just say by design you should not have a W in the fret board?
I will try to take out the hump with frets but only have .030 at best across the board.
 
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