A little Christmas project for me.

This is a mates Squire that I've done a bit of work on. I've done a couple of setups, fret level and changed the pickguard out recently for the extra black one I had after the ST build.

For whatever reason we cannot get the truss rod to hold adjustment. I can get the neck straight and the action quite good, but it slowly returns to a big bow in the neck and shit playability over a week or so. I've even had the neck off, released all the truss rod tension, applied weight against the bow and steamed it for a day. I then left it sitting weighted for a week. It came up really well initially and we thought we had solved it.. but a month or so later it was rubbish again.

As the PBG necks are pretty reasonably priced we decided to have a go at fitting one to this guitar to hopefully solve the problem once and for all.

I've really only had a quick muck around. The new neck is pretty good. There is a slight angle on the heel, similar to what Nitroburner is dealing with in his build thread at the moment, but not as pronounced. I'm confident I can shave a mm off the low E side and keep it all square, so that will be one of the first jobs after I've measured everything.

The new neck also has a fair bit of back bow. I can't quite get it flat with the truss rod, but it's very close and I think between giving it some time to acclimatise and string tension it should be OK. It's the opposite problem to the current neck.

Anyway, quick pic, I'll update with some more details ones a bit later.