Warped Neck?

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Warped Neck?

Unread post by paddy-g » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:53 pm

Good evening. I have a question about a possible warped neck on a new acoustic. First a little background. About 30 days ago I decided to treat myself to a guitar - I played the cello for a long time prior and always wanted to learn the guitar. I purchased a Martin D-15 and from the other posts I payed a little too much. :roll: Anyway, as time passed by I noticed that the high e string had a nasty buzz and the action was too low - the sound is terrible between the 5th and 12th frets and the same thing albeit less so on the b-string. Being my first guitar I thought that I may have overlooked this problem, by sheer ignorance, in the shop when I bought it.

I took it in for service and the person at the shop called me later in the day saying that the guitar had dryed out since I bought it and the neck has warped. Furthermore, it will require 10 days to re-humidify the instrument before they can fix it. OK, here's my question : Can a brand new guitar dry out to the point that the neck warps in 30 days? I live in the Rocky Mountain West, so the humidity is very low, especially in the winter; even so is 30 days enough time to do that type of damage to an instrument. Or...do I need a truss rod or bridge adjustment to fix the action? If the neck has really warped does anyone have a good suggestion of a heavy-duty humidifier?

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Unread post by ticohans » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:37 am

you don't really need a heavy duty humidifier. Look into the Planet Waves humidifier. I forget the name, but it's a good one.

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