Danley wrote:Welcome! I would try to find a luthier to sort the neck on your Legacy; I've had them salvage warped necks before through a combination of heat clamping and careful leveling of the frets
Might not be dead after all.
Yep, recording my own covers of songs on GarageBand is a hobby of mine... Still have to work on being more original myself and writing again one of these days, but it's enough to just stay in practice and stay interested right now.
Thanks for the Welcome!
I could have got it fixed when it first started going bad but it's too late now... I screwed it up royal. I tightened the truss rod so much that it started splitting the the "Bi-Cut" neck where it's glued together. So I took a dremel and ground out a thin area where it had split and filled it with dark wood filler. It looked real nice, kind of like a min Fender skunk stripe. Then the relief got real bad again but the truss rod nut had bottomed out so I added a couple washers and got it within spec. Then the filler started to pop out and the relief got worse again so I sanded it (again) and retightened the truss rod. It was good for some time but... the relief got real bad again. This time I snapped the truss rod nut off, but I knew there was still thread if I removed the washers, but they were wedged in the neck. I ended up cutting a big slot all the way down to the truss end so I could knock the washers out. I filled it back up and sanded it (again), put a new nut on and things were looking pretty good for a while until the relief got big again.
To make a long story shorter... I've sanded the neck so many times that it's real thin now and feels weird, plus the relief is about twice what it should be. It is playable, but I don't like it. Before I bought my new Legacy I inquired about having a new 3 bolt neck built by G&L. The wanted $625 for a Vintage gloss, 7.5 radius, vintage frets neck. I thought about it and decided for that kind of money I might just as well buy a whole new guitar and retire my '94.
I love the feel of my new Legacy with the 7.5 radius and the vintage frets, but now I miss the flatter 12" radius, med jumbo frets of my '94, so I may go ahead and have a new 3 bolt built. If I do, it will be the same standard natural satin, 12 " radius, med jumbo fret neck. I think a new standard neck will cost me around $400 bucks.