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Old 06-02-2017, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan Carruth View Post
In theory you could displace the first fret back a bit toward the nut to get the fretted note to be correct. You'd need to do this for every string, and, since different strings stretch differently, the amount of displacement would differ, so you'd end up with a crooked fret. And then the second fret would still be out, so you'd need to move that, and so on.
Something like this, one of the crazy things I have had to retrofit to a guitar.

Steve

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