Hey all. I posted this on the G&L board, then remembered we have some seriously knowledgable tech-types over here...
While re-stringing my ASAT Special the other night, I noticed my 21st fret is lifting up **out*** of the fretboard on the bass side(you can slip a Heavy pick under it!),under the E & A strings.
I have no fret sprout anywhere on this neck(which is birdseye maple), so I doubt it's a weather thing. And I can't push it back by hand. I know a tech could "tamp" it down, and superglue it if necessary(which I don't think will be necessary because I can't push it back by hand).
Is this just "one of those things", or sign of a defect?
Will supergluing the fret down make a refret harder down the road, or damage the guitar if I forget the fret was glued?
Am I cursed or is all this rotten luck just a coincidence?
2003 has **not** been my year for guitars!!