another FRET BUZZ mystery

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I ground down the buzz spots on the frets...the D&G at the 13th and 6th only...

some improvement, but then I started "chasing the buzz" to other frets it seems as I continued filing or polishing.

after about 3 hrs to 3am, I had gone from the 1st fret to the last fret.
"chasing the buzz" I'll call it. It kept moving.:eek:

guitar is strung, and there was still some buzzing, being picky.

I raised the strings once again and the buzzing is ok, lets say buzzing is gone, imo.

but now the height was changed, raised to 2/16inch, ~3.5mm at the 6th/7th fret.

its ok for hard hitting chords but it sucks for lead & picking as the action is too high. I read Stevie Ray Vaughn always had high action and for chords and playing the electric like an acoustic with heavy strumming, the high action is great.

I prefer lower height, yet be able to strum and have poor "politically correct" playing methods.

anyway, my "fret buzz" is gone....and I have a bunch of flat frets now and higher action.:rolleyes:

Crowning....I think its time I crown these flat frets?

let me know any tricks if you can...the neck is beautiful curly type maple and I don't want to screw the wood up by scratching it.

yeah I could easily see this work costing $150 plus, from labor and precision work. On a collectors or $1,000 plus guitar I'd charge $300 plus if I knew what I was doing.

Its a lot of damn work, with high risk.... but then for a $100 guitar, and if its already broken or buzzed...why not try it yourself as I see it. Mod it, file it, polish it,

"crown it?"
 
I just wanted to add one final post.....hopefully to help someone else.

I totally whacked my guitar up doing this fret work.

it'll either go to a person that knows what their doing, or the strings will now reside at 4mm height. ( and numerous frets are flatter) geeezz fhk? what a bunch of fhk-up!

what did someone say, I loved their saying...

"we spend decades learning something, then we think we can just perform another talented skill in a day....or by reading one article... "

or some crap like that....so true.

go to a pro.....or do a bunch of practicing and have your knowledge first (not just 2 or 3 filed frets).
 
If its a fender or some other guitar with a metal brace in the neck, read up on straightening it. If you don;t know how however don't wing it, that's an easy way to make things worse.
 
this one is a nice cheap guitar. it was just fine except for 2 frets that had a slight buzz (much less than many I've heard)...but being anal retentive and picky I decided to FIX IT!!!:rolleyes:

it has a really gorgeous curly maple neck. ...er...did have.. hahaha fhk.

so I called a "pro" today...they wanted approx. $100, maybe $150 and would have to see it of course. $35 for a setup.

its a $100 guitar. so I'm not putting $100 into fret job on it.
I'll probably take it to the pawn shop.
 
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