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Originally Posted by smwink
Is the neck bowed, or is the neck set at too steep of an angle? Fret the low E string at the 1st fret with your left hand, and use your right hand to simultaneously fret at the highest fret. The string is essentially a straightedge now. Look from the bass side of the neck around the 7th fret. Is there a big gap visible between the 7th fret at the E string? What about at the 5th, 9th, and 12th frets? If you see curvature of the fretboard relative to the string when fretted at both ends like this, then the neck is bowed. If the neck looks relatively straight with only a tiny gap between the string and frets (still fretted at both ends), then the neck itself is ok and the neck set is probably bad. This is just as likely, if not more so, than a bowed neck on a nylon string guitar.
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I did it, and the neck seems only very slightly bowed - doesnt look bad.
For the gap between the strings and frets, it is really tiny at the beginning of the first fret, but gradually hightens and the highest is at about 10th fret about 1.5mm. So from 7 - 10 fret it is at that space. From 13th fret lowering to almost touching at the fret next to the last one.
Great info. Thanks.