Nola
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A friend of mine has a crappy guitar that he asked me to set up. I did so, but after putting the truss rod and action where it should be, there is a lot of buzz.
It has dead frets (about 4 are high and causing this). He asked if I can level them. I told him I've never done it, but I kinda know the process, and he said just go for it because he only paid $10 for the guitar (it's a pretty good guitar for that price!). I planned to just use a triangle file, sharpie marker, and sandpaper to do this. Do I need any fancy tools like a radius block with sandpaper on it or crowing file , etc if it's just a few frets? To file them I was going to use a triangle file, and to crown them I was just going to use progressively finer grit sandpaper.
It has dead frets (about 4 are high and causing this). He asked if I can level them. I told him I've never done it, but I kinda know the process, and he said just go for it because he only paid $10 for the guitar (it's a pretty good guitar for that price!). I planned to just use a triangle file, sharpie marker, and sandpaper to do this. Do I need any fancy tools like a radius block with sandpaper on it or crowing file , etc if it's just a few frets? To file them I was going to use a triangle file, and to crown them I was just going to use progressively finer grit sandpaper.