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luxxtone
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Some of you guys may be interested in this....so I may as well put it up. It's just some photos I was taking as I was working on Brad's guitar he gave me to refret for him. This guitar is KILLER, looks and sounds awesome....now it will play like it should.
Pulling the frets out. Had to oil the board and heat up the fretwire so fretboard chunks didn't come out when pulling 54 year old frets!
Frets out safe and sound.........
Slight re-plane of the board, nice and straight to a 12" radius. Leaving some of the fretboard divots to keep it looking original and not take off too much wood. That won't affect the playability at all.
Which frets.... The first is tall narrow .93 x .47, the 2nd is an original fret .76 x .39 and the last is standard jumbo .104 x .47. We went with the jumbo.
Frets in, need to be trimmed, edges done, leveled, crowned and polished. Lots of work to go!
Frets trimmed, and leveled. Strings on for a basic play test before shaping the frets ends, crowning and sanding/polishing. Left with tension on for a day to make sure everything is cool under tension for awhile. That's where we're at today! I'll post some more photos as it gets finished this week.
Pulling the frets out. Had to oil the board and heat up the fretwire so fretboard chunks didn't come out when pulling 54 year old frets!
Frets out safe and sound.........
Slight re-plane of the board, nice and straight to a 12" radius. Leaving some of the fretboard divots to keep it looking original and not take off too much wood. That won't affect the playability at all.
Which frets.... The first is tall narrow .93 x .47, the 2nd is an original fret .76 x .39 and the last is standard jumbo .104 x .47. We went with the jumbo.
Frets in, need to be trimmed, edges done, leveled, crowned and polished. Lots of work to go!
Frets trimmed, and leveled. Strings on for a basic play test before shaping the frets ends, crowning and sanding/polishing. Left with tension on for a day to make sure everything is cool under tension for awhile. That's where we're at today! I'll post some more photos as it gets finished this week.