Re: Ibanez M510E Question
Not to sound snarky, but you have a $157 plywood mandolin -- that's generally available new for $199. You'll have to be the judge of how much labor and expense you want to put into it. Unless I were interested in developing instrument repair skills (and I'm not), I wouldn't go much further than tweaking the truss rod as much as possible, and putting a new set of electric-mandolin strings on it. Going into fret leveling/pulling, fretboard planing, or anything beyond an hour's work, would be trying to make the proverbial silk purse out of the equally proverbial sow's ear, IMHO.
Or, you could always send it back. Cost you shipping, chalk it up to experience.
Allen Hopkins
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