Small nicks in frets

nikininja · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:32 am

So why not ring your tech tonight, explain the situation to him. Ask if he could slot you in on a emergency appointment Friday. On Friday, get to the city early, get your guitar done, play the gig. It's only a half hour job to put it right, go wait in the car while he does it. Better than driving the 2 hours twice needlessly.

Kill 2 birds with one stone, just through being a little pushy with your times.

mthomps07 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:25 pm **Posts:** 452

Call placed! Waiting on the call back.

JBat · **Joined:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:42 am **Posts:** 80

Martian wrote:

Down to the point of where the deepest indentation in a fret disappears. Sometimes it alters the action, depending on how much meat must be removed from the frets. Oftentimes, it is a minor operation to where adjusting the action is either ever so slight or not required at all. There are many tell tale signs. Some are: The notes don't ring true, outright dead notes/frets, intonation is off; the neck can't be straightened or these problems are exacerbated, stuff like this.

Thanks Martian.

Martian · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:48 am

JBat wrote:

Martian wrote:

Down to the point of where the deepest indentation in a fret disappears. Sometimes it alters the action, depending on how much meat must be removed from the frets. Oftentimes, it is a minor operation to where adjusting the action is either ever so slight or not required at all. There are many tell tale signs. Some are: The notes don't ring true, outright dead notes/frets, intonation is off; the neck can't be straightened or these problems are exacerbated, stuff like this.

Thanks Martian.

Anytime!

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

nikininja wrote:

So why not ring your tech tonight, explain the situation to him. Ask if he could slot you in on a emergency appointment Friday. On Friday, get to the city early, get your guitar done, play the gig. It's only a half hour job to put it right, go wait in the car while he does it. Better than driving the 2 hours twice needlessly.

Kill 2 birds with one stone, just through being a little pushy with your times.

couldnt agree more.
i still say that that you should learn this skill of leveling, and minor fret dressing work. if you knew how to do it, as niki said it about a half hour to an hours job after youve done a few, you wouldnt be in this situation. how ive gone so long with finding myself in this situation time and again, and shelling out the extra cash amazes me. learning to maintain your own guitar is important. ive been doing more and more of my own stuff.
none yet has been as hard as i once thought it was. it does take practice but its very doable. i will say, some of the things niki has said to me and to others over the last few months is what really pushed me over the top to start doing this type stuff myself.
its honestly like paying someone to tie your shoes. why? do it yourself, only you are gonna be the one to know how tight you want it or how lose. so buy you some tools and get instruction and learn these things yourself. so the current situation is that this minor
situation has a major control over your up and coming gig as far as your part in it.
my opinion, there is one thing you should never have to do is worry about if your guitar is gonna be playable for your up and coming gig. there is far more important things to worry about or spend your time doing. for now, do as niki has suggested above and when the gig is over make way that you will never find yourself in a situation like this again.
somethings there is just not a lot you can do about, this isnt one of them.

mthomps07 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:25 pm **Posts:** 452

way cool jr wrote:

couldnt agree more.
i still say that that you should learn this skill of leveling, and minor fret dressing work. if you knew how to do it, as niki said it about a half hour to an hours job after youve done a few, you wouldnt be in this situation. how ive gone so long with finding myself in this situation time and again, and shelling out the extra cash amazes me. learning to maintain your own guitar is important. ive been doing more and more of my own stuff.
none yet has been as hard as i once thought it was. it does take practice but its very doable. i will say, some of the things niki has said to me and to others over the last few months is what really pushed me over the top to start doing this type stuff myself.
its honestly like paying someone to tie your shoes. why? do it yourself, only you are gonna be the one to know how tight you want it or how lose. so buy you some tools and get instruction and learn these things yourself. so the current situation is that this minor
situation has a major control over your up and coming gig as far as your part in it.
my opinion, there is one thing you should never have to do is worry about if your guitar is gonna be playable for your up and coming gig. there is far more important things to worry about or spend your time doing. for now, do as niki has suggested above and when the gig is over make way that you will never find yourself in a situation like this again.
somethings there is just not a lot you can do about, this isnt one of them.

Trust me, this is something that has been on my mind for a while with respect to servicing my own guitar. I unfortunately learned how to play long before I learned the mechanics of the guitar. Learning these things for myself is definitely on my to-do list. I just need some time and a practice strat.

It's also a little difficult when you find a tech who is really good at what they do. There isn't much motivation to try to do it for yourself if you're beyond satisfied with their work. And I used to live in the same city so it wasn't so big of a hassle. But that's beside the point.

With respect to the current situation, I've played on it the past few days and the nicks seem to have been tamed from simple bending and vibrato. I couldn't emphasize enough how tiny they were, so in the long run I'm not surprised they dulled down. I'm gonna go ahead and play the show Friday as the guitar is now, then drop it off Saturday for the works one last time and pick it up next week. After that it's learning time.

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

"It's also a little difficult when you find a tech who is really good at what they do".

how ya think they got that way?

hey i hope your gig goes well and im glad to hear your problem is solved for now.
seriously, try to start learning this stuff. im a newbie to it too, God knows.
its really a new fun way to spend time with your guitars. it cost a little bit in the begining
to get the tools, books, and a couple squier subjects to work on, but it pays in rewards i promise you. my g.friend likes it cause shes the one that gets to screw up my guitars as i go behind her and try to guess whats shes went and done and try to fix it.

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