Astracaster First Build FS-1

[Drashkum]

I agree with the "wack up near the bass" low E side of the neck.

Also , for the first picture on post #71 was the high E string in the nut slot?

No... The nut slot is very shallow, so string was coming out frequently. That's why I posted a video.

I'll try the "Whack therapy" tomorrow

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[fender3x]

... The nut slot is very shallow, so string was coming out frequently.

They are often quite shallow on the kits. They're designed to be cut down to the right string height. I would still use it as an excuse to change it out for something better ;-) Don't know how much actual difference in sound it makes, but I know I have never regretted doing it ;-)

[Drashkum]

They are often quite shallow on the kits. They're designed to be cut down to the right string height. I would still use it as an excuse to change it out for something better ;-) Don't know how much actual difference in sound it makes, but I know I have never regretted doing it ;-)

Yes I had ordered a bone nut. I will change it out if deepening the slots doesn't work.

Pitbull guitars and @adam have not mailed me back or doesn't even have a courtesy to reply to the mails, messages in fb/insta and DM here on this forum on the bad replacement issue and missing fret crown file. I think they have put my mail ID in spam

At first I thought after they get back to me with reasonable solution ( Atleast a 16 Aud refund for the missing file) to the problem, I shall ship one of those guitar Body and neck back to them.

But since they refuse to turn an eye to the problem, I have decided to build 2 guitars with the kit they have sent. First I shall build a FS-1 with the bad kit and gain experience and probably gift it to my guitar teacher as a token of gratitude and then build my own with the piezo thing.

I had already ordered locking tuners/ SD triple-shot pickup ring. The piezo TOM is already there and the Artec MB bufferamp came with it's own set of pots and output Jack's. So all I need to build a new guitar are new pickups, tailpiece for TOM bridge and string trees.

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[fender3x]

Yes I had ordered a bone nut. I will change it out if deepening the slots doesn't work.

I'd do it even if deepening the slots will work. The bone nut's better, so why not ;-)

At first I thought after they get back to me with reasonable solution ( Atleast a 16 Aud refund for the missing file) to the problem, I shall ship one of those guitar Body and neck back to them.

It would not even have occurred to me to return the defective kit unless asked to do so. Your idea seems like a very measured response.