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11-05-2018, 04:58 AM
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Refretting profile ??
Hi, related to my concerns about my Collings guitars,
When a guitar is refretted, should the "apex" of the fret be a gentle "pillow" shape or should it be a sharper rounded point? Is this different for acoustics as opposed to electrics etc? Thanks in advance.
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11-05-2018, 05:14 AM
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Anything you want, a lot of times it has to do with the shape of the file the person is using, I say this as more people tend to use specifically made crowning files rather than standard three corner files.
Pillow shaped frets are very typical of a crowning file having been used. Steve
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11-05-2018, 06:39 AM
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Depends on the fret wire used too. New Jersey luthier and engineer Phil Petillo designed a fret wire that is more triangular shaped with a sharper point than most, and a harder compound. Not many folks particularly like the feel, however I do.
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11-05-2018, 06:03 PM
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If it was good enough for Glen Campbell it's good enough for me. That's how the frets on my personal instruments are shaped. They do require a bit of ongoing maintenance, but the improvement in feel and intonation is worth it. Most standard fretwire gauges have a fret height to fret width ratio of 1:2, which makes the angle on a Petillo shaped fret 45 degrees (for all practical purposes) . I have always been convinced that the ultimate fret playability would actually be achieved with a height:width ratio of around 1:4. However, it is unlikely that any manufacturer is ever going to produce a fretwire like that.
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