Intonation Frustration

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Hoping someone can help me out with this problem.

I had a shop replace the neck on my 84 Kramer Pacer Imperial with a NOS neck I found on eBay. This has the orig Floyd Rose and new R2 nut.

I'm having big intonation problems on my A string. Other strings are okay.

When I first got it back from the refit, I noticed it was really sharp around the 10th fret. I moved the saddle back as far as it would go and although it improved, it remains noticeably sharp. It's sharp mainly above the fifth fret. Bar chords are brutal. Lower frets and open chords seem to be fine for tuning.

I'm wondering if it could be the frets are too high because I've moved back the saddle as far as it can go. I'm wondering whether the height of the frets would cause me to push the string down so far as to push it out of tune.
The shop did a fret dress as it was binding a bit with the NOS frets.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated...
 
Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the shop? I mean, I don't know, so I'm asking. If you put your car in the shop for a brake job and you get it back with squealing brakes, they need to fix it.
 
Agreed. Take it back to the shop and have them work on the intonation. It should have been addressed as part of the neck replacement.
 
Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the shop? I mean, I don't know, so I'm asking. If you put your car in the shop for a brake job and you get it back with squealing brakes, they need to fix it.

Yep - gonna take it into the shop on Saturday. Just wondering what might be the cause...and what the shop could look into...
 
Is it a bolt-on neck? Maybe it's not sitting square or something? :confused:
 
Yeh get it back to them.

Before you do have a double check in this order.

Thats it is only the A string? If it is that pretty much linits the problem to something directly related to that string. The nut, saddle, action and string itself. Check all of them. A worn or duff string would be my best guess. The action, nut and saddle have to be pretty bad to cause a problem to just a single string.

Fret hight and increasing tension is an issue for intonation but rarely again does it manifest on a single string unless your playing style is unique. Have someone else play it just to rule that out but I doubt it.
 
I took the guitar back to the shop today - now it's just wait and see what the scoop is....
 
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