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Originally Posted by ChrisN
Hmm. That's not good. What's the downside to replacing frets 1-7 and dressing only those new frets, not the old ones unless they're going flat? It seems the higher/taller frets 1-7 would keep the string height above the older non-replaced frets, meaning no buzz (as a positive). What's the negative?
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New frets are not dressed, at least in the way and to the extent worn frets are dressed. If the fret wear is limited to the first several frets, and the wear is sufficient such that is creates buzzes, intonation issues, etc., a valid choice to is simply replace the worn frets with frets of the same height/width/composition as the remaining frets. With that, all frets will have the same height and future setups can be done without fret height issues.