Kramer – Fret Dress and setup

How’s that for a guitar finish!  Wow,  I’m not sure if it’s quite my cup of tea but I just love it.  Sadly it’s just not playing very well, there’s quite a bit of fret buzz high up the neck.

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The problem lies in the frets, some of them are just a little uneven.  To uneven to dial out with a setup, they need dressing to level them off.

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It’s always easier to work with the neck off the guitar.  Also less likely to do any damage to the body.

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With the neck off, levelled and taped up to protect the frertboard.

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The black marker pen is so I can see when my sanding beam is touching and therefore where the low points are.

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So long as there’s pen on top of the fret I need to keep going.

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Once that’s done each fret needs to be rounded off again and then re-polished.

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Time to put it all back together.

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A standard setup should be possible now, a decent action without the buzz.  First the neck set.

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Then the action at the 12th fret….

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by adjusting the bridge height.

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The action at the 1st fret.

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The intonation…

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Finishing off with the pickup heights.

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So there it is playing and feeling as good as it looks.

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A word or 2 from the owner:

“Thanks for sorting it out for me George. It was nearly unbearable before you leveled the frets and set it up. My go to guitar now. Plays extremely well.”

 

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