I would have taken it to a guitar tech" and had it trained.. thats what I had to do with my LP. That pesky out of tune G string was driving me insane.
Might be the 1997 is a fake. They had a huge dust up about the fake Fenders in the late 90's and early 2000's.
Holy Smoke, A guitar made at the Kalamazoo mother ship?
Speaking of Kalamazoo, I just finished a book called Kalamazoo Gals. Dang good read..