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Post subject: Re: Help on fretboard
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:09 am
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Hi. DO NOT use a knife to scrape between the frets. DO NOT start digging in there.All you will cause is damage. And to taking a file to your frets to make them round again, you can try this but you can also make things worse if you don't know what your doing.And no amount of polish or whatever is going to put the color back in the fretwire,and will take the finish off your frets. Do not worry about a little overspray.If you wanted to clean there,you would use a credit card,nothing sharp! You sanded the fretwire and made it uneven,it was not caused by playing. Do not follow Ted J's advice.It will make things worse.


And you are a qualified Luthier?
If you take the time to actually read my post correctly, I advocated getting a stanley knife blade and CAREFULLY laying it as flat as possible onto the fretboard and scoring through the oversprayed laquer at the fret bottom, otherwise when you bludgeon the laquer off, you will be left with a jagged edge at each frets contact point with the fretboard

I also never reccommended taking a file to the frets, what I said was get a Stewmac file and Carefully round off THE ENDS of the frets (something so simple with a flat sided file that a child could be taught how to do it properly), then polish the frets to take off any remaining residue of laquer

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Post subject: Re: Help on fretboard
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:07 am
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+1 Ted...Overspray, plain and simple. I agree with this course of action.

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