Sophia of “Pretty In Punk” purchased this guitar new, but it was almost unplayable. Could the Unbrokenstring Crew get this beautiful instrument in shape?
Nearly every fret was higher or lower than the one next to it. To mask the problem, the action was very high.
We straightened the neck itself so that it was absolutely flat, then used the Absolutely Flat sander across the frets.
Here, you can see the large amount of material removed from one fret, but not the others.
More material removed from the high frets.
Oh, look, here is another high fret.
Here, three frets in a row were high.
Getting close to the sound board, we’re running out of high frets to sand.
After sanding, we marked the top edge of the frets so we don’t take any more material from them.
This nifty fret file works only on the sides of the fret to round them over. This file was reviewed in an earlier blog post.
Now, we’re getting somewhere. This fret board is flat and the frets are even.
Sophia prefers these strings.
If you look closely, some of the over-wound strings at the end almost crested the top of the saddle. If they get too close, I have some washers that slip over the string and sit on the ball end. The string would then be passed thru the hole in the bridge from the inside of the guitar. However, when tuned to standard pitch, we had no trouble here. Missed It By That Much!
I think she’s happy with the results!
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