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Originally Posted by Chazmo
The frets on my Godin Kingpin were in kind of rough shape, so I took a crack at it. It came out pretty well. Some of the lower frets were pitted, and I was nervous about taking it that far down, but I got rid of the pits, and there looks to be a reasonable amount of fret height left (hard to tell, since they're small frets to begin with). Anyway, the buzzes are gone, and over all it definitely feels easier to play. The fretboard extension on this guitar tends to move around quite a bit with weather and humidity changes, so time will tell whether this holds up, but if nothing else I learned that this is doable without destroying the guitar.
John
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11-22-2020 12:37 AM
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When you level the frets the fingerboard needs to be completely flat, or as flat as possible. Stew Mac and Dan have a whole gizmo set up that charge a fortune for to do fret dressing. I suspect it works and fine and nothing wrong with it however all the 2 great builders that taught me how to dress frets never had one and never used one. So I don't use this very expensive tool to get the neck straight and then dress the frets. The neck can be actually be set straight with 2 blocks and a clamp on the neck if need be. I never that had to resort to doing it but given some necks are do not have truss rods then I have it ready.
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
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