Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - frustrated HW1 owner...anyone else had fret rattle issues?

bluepill · November 20th, 2008, 12:23 AM

hey guys, quick update....may need to read my first post to get the jizz :)

last weekend i drove around to 3 guitars shops and played a **** load of teles including 4 * HW1s....well what did i find, pretty much every tele fret rattles when bending on the high e / b string around 10-17th frets (and i mean buzz out big time!!)

so i went to the shop where i bought the guitar, took it home and started to play with it...kind of figures that if i swapped for another one id have the same issues anyway

so got home and ending up with a steel rule and sanding stone on the frets and well, it has helped...but created issues elsewhere around the 1-5th fret, and the low e... not sure why but then again i was playing around with the neck relief too so need to let it settle....i also think the nut needs to be raised....i did however get some gfs pickups into here and there pretty cool for the $
(i know the above sounds like a novice hacker, and pretty bad, but i find some reward in setting up my own guitars and have done it on many les paul style ones with good results)

anyway short of it is i will give it a few weeks of trying to fix, and then shes on ebay or trade in...im not sure i want to go to a luthier and spend another $100 on it after the saga thats already happened.

it has been a very disapointing run, and as much as i do love the highways (and all other teles), they have got to be some of the worst quality new instruments...i mean some mexicans played better than the custom shop jobs, figure that out

so perhaps ill hold out for an older *** or mex, im not sure but i dare say ill soon be back to the strat, *** 335 and ibanez artists...upsetting really!

November 20th, 2008, 12:23 AM	#33 (permalink)
bluepill TDPRI Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: st kilda Age: 32 Posts: 92	hey guys, quick update....may need to read my first post to get the jizz :) last weekend i drove around to 3 guitars shops and played a **** load of teles including 4 * HW1s....well what did i find, pretty much every tele fret rattles when bending on the high e / b string around 10-17th frets (and i mean buzz out big time!!) so i went to the shop where i bought the guitar, took it home and started to play with it...kind of figures that if i swapped for another one id have the same issues anyway so got home and ending up with a steel rule and sanding stone on the frets and well, it has helped...but created issues elsewhere around the 1-5th fret, and the low e... not sure why but then again i was playing around with the neck relief too so need to let it settle....i also think the nut needs to be raised....i did however get some gfs pickups into here and there pretty cool for the $ (i know the above sounds like a novice hacker, and pretty bad, but i find some reward in setting up my own guitars and have done it on many les paul style ones with good results) anyway short of it is i will give it a few weeks of trying to fix, and then shes on ebay or trade in...im not sure i want to go to a luthier and spend another $100 on it after the saga thats already happened. it has been a very disapointing run, and as much as i do love the highways (and all other teles), they have got to be some of the worst quality new instruments...i mean some mexicans played better than the custom shop jobs, figure that out so perhaps ill hold out for an older * or mex, im not sure but i dare say ill soon be back to the strat, * 335 and ibanez artists...upsetting really!