Would you take a guitar that need a refret to a gig?

[OzMando]

I think you are all weenies. Most of my gigging is all fretless on violin, you'll survive.

I'd refret it myself at those prices.

Ha ha, fretless bass guit and fiddle here too. I prefer my guitars to have frets though.

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[blille]

Time for slide!!


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[entresz]

I'd play it like that... providing it doesn't buzz/rattle too much and providing it's not physically uncomfortable to play.

It's the super-elusive Guild "Fretless Wonder"

[mr. beaumont]

Looks doable.

Price is insane.

Guitar doesn't look very "prohibition" to me. Looks like it belongs at a Playboy Mansion party.

[rpjazzguitar]

I'd start with the archtop, wait until about the third round of drinks and switch to the Tele.

[Hep To The Jive]

Guitar doesn't look very "prohibition" to me. Looks like it belongs at a Playboy Mansion party.

Close enough. For really extreme cases I have a tenor banjo.

Also what Docbop said

The people at most might know a solid body it not a Prohibition era instrument, but anything with an archtop shape you're filling the role

[Hep To The Jive]

So yeah, done, Guild got me through just fine! No cramps, just clams, but normal amount To compensate for low frets I employed whisky. The hardest part was drinking from a tea cup. Damn, Prohibition was no picnic!

[Little Jay]

Holy macaroni, $650 for a refret?!?!? I had my '49 ES-125 refretted for $220! (€200), and the guy did it perfectly. In another post I read a price of $100 for a bone nut. Man that cost me €25.... I feel for you overthere....but at least the instruments are much cheaper than with us.

Btw, my ES-125 had the same low frets as your Guild, felt funny indeed. But I didn't get cramps or anything and still sounded good, so you might get thru a 4 hour gig without problems. With heavy flatwounds you can get away with very low frets.

I would take the Guild and the Tele as a backup, as per citizenk74's advise.


**edit: oh boy, I am swinging after the bell as usual.... glad the gig went fine!