This is the exact "issue" Im having at the moment :-[ Luthiers and "luthiers"
Im the 3'rd owner of my guitar, and one of the previous persona's, bent notes like a SOB, and was pretty heavy handed. Im guessing it was the first owner, who owned the guitar for the longest length of time. At about the 12'th fret the tops have been slightly flattened and indented. Nothing requiring immediate attention, but long run it will have to be re-fretted. The dents are too deep to be buffed out ☹
Thing is with the LP I would end up losing the neck binding with the re-fretting? :'(
Im putting this BS off, until it becomes so bad I cant play her anymore....
She has a Rosewood fretboard, but even though it may be correctly dressed, it still wouldnt be covered by the binding..... right?
Who would you recommend in the KZN area to work on this?
warrenpridgeon wrote:
Hey guys... specifically people who have done fret work or know how it should be...
Would the work on this:
Be considered of a high standard? I am talking in terms of the marks on the fret board...
This is a friends guitar that I took in to a shop (where he bought it) for it's initial setup...
Almost every fret has grooves on it by the fret wires as can be seen it the pic...
It looks like someone didn't take very good care when doing the fret filing?
Or does it always do this when you file (dress?) frets?
As has already been mentioned... The fretboard should have been masked, even though (IMHO) masking probably wouldn't have prevented it from being bruised the way it has. That bruising looks like it may have been caused by incorrect re-fretting. As if whomever fretted that neck, got the balance's wrong, and tried to use like a G-clamp (or something) similar to bed them a little deeper. A clamp with some sort of spacer
may have caused this sort of dent?
My guess would be the factory at manufacture, not any repair work. That is, IMHO only though ?
