Had the same problem recently, moving from .80 to .95 frets and in my
case the remedy consisted of two things:
First, I had to "reform" the fingerboard a little bit with a scraper so
as to get it a little bit curved (it was actually curved the wrong way
from the 4th fret up...). This might not b
Hi Sterling,
Since nobody else seems to be doing so, I'll chip in here. I assume
you are using gut for the frets - it's less troublesome than nylon in
this respect.
I wonder how sharp the edges of your fingerboard are. If they have a
sharp edge, there's no 'radius' for the fr
Hi-
There was no problem when this lute had just -slightly- smaller frets.
I was hoping there would be some remedy I could do without putting new
frets on as they are quite expensive at this size. I tried loosening a
fret and working it a bit to soften the edge but it wasn't successf
Well, you could move down all frets towards the nut - this should give
you room to adjust the neck to whatever is needed from the 2nd fret up.
Then put all frets in place except the first and finish on this first
position.
Best,
Michael
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:08 -0700, sterling price wrote:
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Hi Sterling,
I just went through the exact problem as you w/ the first fret not 'lying down'
about a month ago. I was also hoping on a piece of advice that wouldn't lead to
removing and more carefully retying one. Yes, they are expensive at that
diameter. Forgive me for watching and waiting fo
There is a quite certain way to fix this situation, but it requires some
pre-thinking and preparation.
A well measured amount of heat + pressure, applied to the gut frets on this
kind of sharp edges, will lay them down flat, whatever the starting
configuration is.
The question here is to have
point?
I'm usually pretty good at fiddling with frets, such as tightening old
loose frets and such.
Sterling
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