Timeline for Are these indentations on the frets of my Acoustic for intonation? Can I apply this to the frets of my Electric?
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| May 6, 2022 at 11:51 | comment | added | bigbadmouse | some frets are made of quite soft metal. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 11:49 | comment | added | bigbadmouse | i just re-crown frets myself with an Ebay kit. Its about as hard as "putting on a hat". Seriously not complicated with lots of youtube tutorials | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 15:45 | comment | added | Tim | Exactly - and that will influence every single fret - using 12th (and 19th for me!) as the datum point, but a compensating nut, wherever it's set, will be overruled even after the first fret is pressed. Still to do homework! Maybe that's why I like the guitars I have with zero frets! And - fingerboards/ necks are pre-set, so when a different neck is put on a guitar, its position is of paramount importance - maybe that's where the comp. nut comes into its own. | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @Tim The other way to look at it is the compensated nut slightly changes where you put the saddle when you adjust the intonation | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | Tim | Thanks - must do a bit of homework on that. Tuning differently sounds weird ! | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @Tim with a compensating nut you tune the open string differently, so that changes the tuning of all the fretted notes for that string also. | |
| Aug 27, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | Tim | Not hard of 'compensating nuts', but for me, all they would affect is open strings. Once any string is fretted, they lose any value they may bring, unlike saddles at the other end, which are effective for open and fretted notes. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 11:01 | vote | accept | Chowzen | ||
| May 14, 2021 at 14:07 | comment | added | dbmag9 | Someone please tell me there's a guitar shop that doesn't do repairs somewhere with a big sign saying 'NO REFRETS' | |
| May 14, 2021 at 13:19 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Chowzen It's not surprising that only the first few frets are affected, since they're by far the most commonly used by most players. It's also not surprising to see it on the higher-pitched strings since they generally are a bit tighter than the others, thus requiring more force to hold them down. Also, if they're steel (which they might've been in the past), they're thinner wire, which effectively makes them sharper, much like the blade of a kitchen knife is thinner on the cutting edge than on the back. | |
| May 14, 2021 at 9:47 | comment | added | Chowzen | @Tim Hmmm... could be. Got it as a Christmas present and it seemed pretty pretty new to me. I'm just skeptical at the coincidence of the "wear" being under the three most troublesome strings in the most troublesome areas (frets 1-5) and not anywhere else. It seemed to fit my dilemma on the electric so well! | |
| May 14, 2021 at 6:11 | comment | added | Tim | @Chowzen - is that Ibanez a second-hand guitar that someone may have used steel strings on previously? Just about all the second-hand guitars I've seen with fret wear have it in 2nd fret, 4th string worst. | |
| May 14, 2021 at 1:42 | comment | added | Chowzen | I considered this being fret wear, but it's only on the first three string positions, which I've only used nylon strings on. The 4th through 6th strings are brass-wound nylon (or something)—wouldn't they wear the same or faster? They don't show any wear at all! | |
| May 14, 2021 at 1:28 | history | edited | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 14, 2021 at 1:21 | history | answered | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |