Wow, what a great guitar. And a fantastic example of a great guitar at that! It’s seen some action though, and needs a little TLC to bring it back to life. The frets are a little worn up at the paying end so that’ll need sorting out for a start. In preparation for a fret dress, off with […]
Tag: Fret Dress
Epiphone Les-Paul – Fret Dress
Nice looking guitar, just not playing right. The problem is with a couple of rather uneven frets. Unless they’re sorted out it’s never going to play well. With the strings off and the neck levelled it’s just a case of grinding the frets down to the lowest common point. You can see where the 4th, […]
Ibanez RG – Fret Dress and Setup
I generally rate Ibanez guitars, but this one’s not so good. It’s got some very uneven frets. The only way to get it playing properly is to dress them all, to get a common level. It’s always easiest to do that with the neck off the guitar. There we go, taped up and levelled. As […]
Vintage Acoustic – Fret Dress and Setup
Now there’s a great looking guitar. A real nod the 1960’s. I quite like Vintage guitars, they’re normally quite well made guitars but this one isn’t so good….. It’s got some very uneven frets. To really lift the tone I’m also going to replace the plastic bridge saddle with a bone one. Along with a […]
Gibson – Low Fret
Now this is a lovely guitar, a pity it’s just got that Gibson inconsistency about it. Some of the frets are rather uneven. The first one’s particularly low. The only way to really sort that lot out is with a fret-dress. There we go, with the fretboard flat, the nut removed and taped up to […]
PRS – Rebuild
A bit of a mess this one, but with a bit of effort I think it should be recoverable.. The first fault is rather obvious, it’s just between the nut and the machine heads! To glue it back together was quite simple, the break was along the grain. The trouble is there were some large pieces […]
Telecaster rebuild
Wow, an interesting mix of old and new. The neck is genuine Fender, but I don’t know about the rest. The body’s probably the heaviest Telecaster I’ve ever come across. I’m going to fit the neck to a new body with a mix of old and new hardware. The first stage is to sort out the […]
Gibson SG – Fret Dress and setup
I rather fancy one of these, This one needed quite a bit of sorting out though… The string break angle over the bridge looks a little extreme to me, but I can sort that out when I get it back together and complete the setup. The frets have got some worn spots…. and are a […]
Innes Sibun “Strat”
What a beautiful guitar. There are lots of Strats’ out there so it takes something out of the ordinary to stand out, and this certainly does that. It’s got just one slight flaw, some of the frets are just a little un-even. I’ve seen worse, but to get it playing really nicely they need to […]
Schecter – Fret Dress and setup
Not quite my cup of tea, and it’s got a bit of a problem, a couple of low spots. High spots are easy, to lower two high frets down to the rest is quite easy but I’ve got to bring the other 22 down to the low 2, if you follow my drift! With the […]