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Originally Posted by mirwa
I cannot help you as I am in Australia, I do plenty of them however.
For an idea in price, neck reset/refret/new nut/new saddle/new strings you are looking at around the 850 mark.
I also find yamaha cut the end of the fretboards too short, the nut sits too close to the first fret and affects intonation, if yours is the same, I would recommend machining the whole fretboard away and making a new fretboard as well.
Steve
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I just got a guitar in today and thought about your post. It's a Borreguero Spanish guitar probably made in the 40's and the neck angle needs to be reset. Normally I would refret it and plane in a taper to get a good angle but that has been done before. So I could remove the fretboard and add a tapered shim but the frets are so poorly cut on this guitar it's not worth it. By eye you can actually see that the frets are angled... and it's not a fan fret
Anyway so it needs a new fretboard and I thought maybe machining it off might jsut be easier then heating it off but I have never done it before.