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faderbug
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when removing frets, do you pull them out from above or slide them out sideways?
scrubs
Not of sound mind
I just let 'em rip...you were talking about farts, right?
metalhead28
Hates Raymond
faderbug said:
I don't think you'll find an easy way to slide them out sideways. Most people will remove them from above with some end cutters/ nippers or whatever you want to call them. You can get that tool from Stew Mac and places like that. You dont want to just yank them straight out becasue you can easily chip up and damage the fretboard. You want to carefully pinch just under them with the nippers and walk them back and forth across the neck working the fret out slowly. The tangs in the fret can easily tear out the wood if you're not careful.
Light
New member
Buy Dan Erlewine's book on fret work. It will answer all your questions, and is a lot cheaper than bringing it to a repair shop to fix your mistakes (though you may still have to bring it in, as most people screw up there first few dozen fret jobs).
But to answer your question, you pull them, but you need the right tool to do it, and you can't buy it. Even the ones which are sold for this purpose (at least, the ones I've seen) don't have their faces flush, and so need to be modified.
But mostly, buy Dan's book, it will turn an impossible job (for an amateur) into only a nearly impossible job.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
But to answer your question, you pull them, but you need the right tool to do it, and you can't buy it. Even the ones which are sold for this purpose (at least, the ones I've seen) don't have their faces flush, and so need to be modified.
But mostly, buy Dan's book, it will turn an impossible job (for an amateur) into only a nearly impossible job.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
Armistice
Son of Yoda
I'm always amazed (no disrespect intended faderbug!) at the number of otherwise sane people that are interested in doing guitar work like this.
I respect my guitars far too much to subject them to my low-attention-span-gumby-fisted attempts to do anything even vaguely serious to them.
Strings, cleaning, set ups, intonation and maybe, just maybe soldiering a new thingummy in place of an old one, but removing frets....? You're a brave man faderbug, good luck, you have my admiration!
I respect my guitars far too much to subject them to my low-attention-span-gumby-fisted attempts to do anything even vaguely serious to them.
Strings, cleaning, set ups, intonation and maybe, just maybe soldiering a new thingummy in place of an old one, but removing frets....? You're a brave man faderbug, good luck, you have my admiration!