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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 7:30 pm
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I know it doesn't look much but I've hardly played it and its already caught up with the guitar I've had for over a year and play all the time. It's worrying me.

There's no wear on there!!! :lol:

You want to see fretwear you should see my tele. Now it's got real wear. Then again i've been playing it for about 15 years :lol:

I can't be bothered getting it refretted 'cos it always feels different and weird after a refret.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 8:40 pm
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Now those wear marks for a new instrument make me wonder about the quality of the frets right out of the factory. I am guessing that cost-cutting is a very studied area where every detail counts, and so it doesn´t surprise me that players buy a MIM and then upgrade a few appointments, be that potentiometers, frets, etc.


My MIM Standard Strat is three years old and I have been using Fender 10-46 Pure Nickel strings on it for the past two years and it has zero fret year. There is something going on with the OP's guitar that is not right. What, I have no clue.


I stand corrected.
Thanks bluesky636 for rectifying my post.
My most inexpensive guitar is a chinese Squire, a much lesser guitar than a MIM Strat, and it is in very good shape despite hours of pounding scales which is what I use it for.

And I did go ahead and make a blunt assumption, which was wrong on my part, especially because I don´t own a MIM Fender.

As for this particular guitar, I have never kept an instrument I´m not happy with. Why do that to yourself? And as Fenders hold their value exceptionally well, the OP could try to sell and move on rather than fret with this one.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 5:56 am
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Certainly can identify... I've a MIM Tele with which I'm otherwise very pleased, however, after just five months it has developed an annoying "sitar-effect" when fretting a (very common and often used) D chord. My local music store guy took a look and indeed verified some flattening of the frets down in the nut area (frets 1-4, esp. 3). As such, it is off to a Fender Authorized tech for, what I hope to be, some warranty work. Hard to comprehend that the wear would occur so prematurely. I'm only on the third string change (9-42's, Fender OEM, EB Extra Slinky, and D'Ads) and play maybe 10-15 hours per week. I'll be pretty disappointed if this is not handled as a warranty issue by Fender, as it seems a pretty clear case of faulty materials...

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 7:28 am
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I would take a Chinese-made guitar over a Mexican guitar every single day and twice on Sunday. They work hard over there and they've got their systems down, dude.


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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 3:21 pm
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Ok, well I am going to play it a few more months and see how it goes, then I'm going to contact the store I got it from and see what happens.
If I can't take it back then I will either pay for a refret or just buy a new neck.
But I'm not happy, I've read other people have had the same experiences with Fender guitars.
It's not like I bought a bottom of the line Squire.


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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 4:39 pm
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Looking at that photo there is absolutely nothing wrong with the frets. They look completely unworn.

Aside from the edge dressing and angle, they're perfect.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 4:41 pm
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Those lines on the fret tops aren't wear. Those are file marks. I don't care who puts the frets in a guitar, those things are as near inescapable as Colditz.
Play the guitar and those things will soon disappear

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 5:10 pm
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ok, I'll just keep playing it for a while first and see how it is.


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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 6:15 pm
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Those lines on the fret tops aren't wear. Those are file marks. I don't care who puts the frets in a guitar, those things are as near inescapable as Colditz.
Play the guitar and those things will soon disappear

I disagree with the file marks idea. The size of the grooves is correspondingly smaller under the A string than they are under the E string. Besides which, they don't look like file marks. I've done some metal filing in my time. Those do not appear to me to be the marks of a file.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 5:18 am
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Well they definitely weren't there when I bought it, it's definitely wear, I thoroughly inspected the guitar when I got it.


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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:01 am
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What on Earth could be wearing such straight lines into the strings at such width?
You'd have to be exerting an inordinate amount of pressure on the strings and pushing them into the frets. Whilst bending up and down on the same string.

Unless the guitar has been stored flat up against something that moves around for a good while.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:37 am
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Unless the guitar has been stored flat up against something that moves around for a good while.

I was kind of wondering about that myself. I think there would have to be enough pressure to squeeze the case into the strings quite firmly and then exhert back and forth motion. Perhaps if it was loaded into a vehicle trunk (boot) and some heavy items were placed on top of it.

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Post subject: Re: Pure nickel strings and fret wear question
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:23 am
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Or it wasn't in a case.

I magnified the screen 5x to see it. I need an eye test. :oops:

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