I recently won a late 80s/early 90s Super Grade on Ebay. Has the winged TRC, a serial number in the cavity, short tenon and fret edge binding. Later VH1s. Three piece back, veneer top (but with some nice flame).
When I got it, it was having some fretting out issues and around fret 15-16 a pretty bad buzzing. I had a friend of mine who normally does my set ups, set it up. He called today and said that everything is good except it appears that the fret where the buzzing is is too low and even if dressed I may lose the ability to keep it from fretting out.
When I bought it I was allowed to have a 24 hour inspection period and the guy has actually extended that through this week when I had it set up due to the fretting out and buzzing issues. While my friend is very knowledgeable, I'm taking it to a more experienced luthier tomorrow for a further evaluation.
I really like big necks and this one has a pretty substantial one. I got what I think was a pretty reasonable deal on it (right at $600 shipped). Is it worth it to either fully or partially refret or would you just return it and keep looking? It is in pretty good shape only one fairly minor ding and a couple of "dents" but nothing major.
Here is a link to the auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-90s-Burny...oryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Clearly says "no fret wear" which is clearly not the case (although on most of the other frets there is very little wear). Also says sounds and plays great. There's no way that if it was played you couldn't have noticed the fret buzz at this one fret area.
So what would you do?
When I got it, it was having some fretting out issues and around fret 15-16 a pretty bad buzzing. I had a friend of mine who normally does my set ups, set it up. He called today and said that everything is good except it appears that the fret where the buzzing is is too low and even if dressed I may lose the ability to keep it from fretting out.
When I bought it I was allowed to have a 24 hour inspection period and the guy has actually extended that through this week when I had it set up due to the fretting out and buzzing issues. While my friend is very knowledgeable, I'm taking it to a more experienced luthier tomorrow for a further evaluation.
I really like big necks and this one has a pretty substantial one. I got what I think was a pretty reasonable deal on it (right at $600 shipped). Is it worth it to either fully or partially refret or would you just return it and keep looking? It is in pretty good shape only one fairly minor ding and a couple of "dents" but nothing major.
Here is a link to the auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-90s-Burny...oryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Clearly says "no fret wear" which is clearly not the case (although on most of the other frets there is very little wear). Also says sounds and plays great. There's no way that if it was played you couldn't have noticed the fret buzz at this one fret area.
So what would you do?