Dressing uneven frets

There are two reasons why you might want to have your frets dressed, the first is if they have uneven heights, particularly if you want a low action. The diagram below, not exactly to scale, shows how when the string (the red line) is pushed down at the 2nd fret it should just clear the […]

Burns Steer – Setup

What a great looking guitar.  I’ve never really liked Burns guitars but this one’s rather lovely. It’s an odd sort of thing, It’s got a sound hole, but there really isn’t any sound coming out of it? Some of the frets are a little worn…. and just a little uneven. A fret dress will sort out […]

Fender Showmaster – Fret-dress and setup

What  beautiful piece of wood.  Sadly it’s a little worn and actually wasn’t very well built in the first place, but I can sort all that out… As I say, some of the frets up at the paying end are rather worn. Some of the frets are way off.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a […]

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. The problem lies in the frets, some of them are just a little uneven.  To uneven […]

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 […]

Ibanez – Fret Dress

These are normally better than this.!.  If you’re looking for a good starter guitar then I reckon you can do a lot worse than pick up a second-had Ibanez.  Sadly I think this one must have been built on a Friday afternoon!  Still a good looking guitar though… Mostly it’s fine, It just has a couple […]

Epiphone ES339 – Fret dress and setup

A great looking guitar, sadly not playing as well as it should.  In fact they made a bit of a mess of this one, the frets are all over the place..The 11th was the highest but they were all very uneven.  You’d like to think a new guitar would be better than that but, sadly, […]