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Post by endless on Feb 5, 2009 4:51:42 GMT -5
I have a fender acoustic, of which I am probably the tenth+ owner. My uncle's-sister's-friend won it in a pool game, sans tuners, and it slowly made it's way through them, to me.
At some point, I guess some person, in a stroke of genius, tried to fix some upper fret buzz with a huge-ass, coarse file. Some of the frets are nearly level with the fretboard, and I've had two guys tell me they can't refret it.
What difficulties are their in pulling such heavily damaged frets? How would I go about it?
This thing's probably destined to be either fretless or 19 TET, if that matters.
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Post by Tungus on Feb 13, 2009 20:21:37 GMT -5
What I do... (which prolly isnt the right way) Is heat the fret up with a large tip 120 volt 60 watt soldering iron with a heatsink plate on it for a few min.....then slowly rock the fret out as it cools down with fret pulling pliers. They look like electrical "end" cutters but are made for pulling frets.
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Post by endless on Feb 14, 2009 0:21:55 GMT -5
What I do... (which prolly isnt the right way) Is heat the fret up with a large tip 120 volt 60 watt soldering iron with a heatsink plate on it for a few min.....then slowly rock the fret out as it cools down with fret pulling pliers. They look like electrical "end" cutters but are made for pulling frets. Sounds good to me. Now, if I can just find my soldering iron
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