Doug H
I'll be there
So I picked up this used mex 63 strat. Really bad stratitis but that's another story. after a few months I started getting frustrated playing above the 12th fret. Most notably the high e was fretting out bending up to an A. I went to the local shop with the idea of having it refretted. Basically money was no object, I wanted it as right as the guitar would allow. The guy at the shop said there was still a lot of fret left on the neck so we decided on a fret dress. I got it baclk and the high E wasn't fretting out anymore but it was still dead above the 12th.
After some delibaration I decided that my neck has a bit of toungue rise and/or it's seen a lot of wear and lowering the last few frets would be a good thing. So I got out the file and the masking tape and whittled away.
Wow, what a difference. On my first test play I cranked the b string up to a high E (or f# can't remember) and just let it hang for 30 seconds.
There was only one minor casualty I've found so far, the 19th fret on the A string is not quite pure :0. I'm not sure if it was that way before (probably not) Other than that it plays pretty good all the way up. I'm going to take a close look at what I did and see if I can spot anything obvious.
No real reason for this post other than I just wanted to blab about it. It was easy as hell and took about half an hour, some masking tape and a metal file. I poked aroujd with a straight edge and a gapper before hand to get an ida of which frets were too high.
Axe feels like a guitar now when I hold it in my hand
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After some delibaration I decided that my neck has a bit of toungue rise and/or it's seen a lot of wear and lowering the last few frets would be a good thing. So I got out the file and the masking tape and whittled away.
Wow, what a difference. On my first test play I cranked the b string up to a high E (or f# can't remember) and just let it hang for 30 seconds.
There was only one minor casualty I've found so far, the 19th fret on the A string is not quite pure :0. I'm not sure if it was that way before (probably not) Other than that it plays pretty good all the way up. I'm going to take a close look at what I did and see if I can spot anything obvious.
No real reason for this post other than I just wanted to blab about it. It was easy as hell and took about half an hour, some masking tape and a metal file. I poked aroujd with a straight edge and a gapper before hand to get an ida of which frets were too high.
Axe feels like a guitar now when I hold it in my hand
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