Help: Hi and my Majesty
Hi all.
Recently acquired first EB MM a 2016 Majesty in Polar Noir. Impressed for so many reasons… The action is fantastic (low & clean), massive DiMarzio fan already and I appreciate quality.
So my first (and so definitely not my last MM has a couple of issues that I can live with but wonder whether anyone can offer some advice on please? The easy one is the oxidising black chrome but I can either ignore that or buy some new knobs.
The tricky easy one is what is the polyurethane ( – I think?) lacquer on the fingerboard has come away and has an ugly cloudy air gap in. I see from other posts this isn’t a one off but it looks like a bad case of it and I am wondering whether I can carefully repair it somehow? There’s a hairline crack between the fretted surface of the fingerboard and the side and wondering whether just a tiny pin head of CA might seal it? It’s largely cosmetic, I can’t feel it and I might be able to ignore it but would be nice fix. Interestingly if I introduce moisture onto the crack the moisture makes it disappear perhaps suggesting it’s a very thin gap.
As I said I have seen others on here with bubbles around fret ends and understand this is likely wood shrinking back from the fret ends?
Anyway that’s very wordy but if anyone gets to the bottom and has words of wisdom to share that would be great.
In every other way this is an outstanding and I am already eyeing up additions to my collection…:)
Recently acquired first EB MM a 2016 Majesty in Polar Noir. Impressed for so many reasons… The action is fantastic (low & clean), massive DiMarzio fan already and I appreciate quality.
So my first (and so definitely not my last MM has a couple of issues that I can live with but wonder whether anyone can offer some advice on please? The easy one is the oxidising black chrome but I can either ignore that or buy some new knobs.
The tricky easy one is what is the polyurethane ( – I think?) lacquer on the fingerboard has come away and has an ugly cloudy air gap in. I see from other posts this isn’t a one off but it looks like a bad case of it and I am wondering whether I can carefully repair it somehow? There’s a hairline crack between the fretted surface of the fingerboard and the side and wondering whether just a tiny pin head of CA might seal it? It’s largely cosmetic, I can’t feel it and I might be able to ignore it but would be nice fix. Interestingly if I introduce moisture onto the crack the moisture makes it disappear perhaps suggesting it’s a very thin gap.
As I said I have seen others on here with bubbles around fret ends and understand this is likely wood shrinking back from the fret ends?
Anyway that’s very wordy but if anyone gets to the bottom and has words of wisdom to share that would be great.
In every other way this is an outstanding and I am already eyeing up additions to my collection…:)
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