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Fret leveling is one of the most productive procedures to achieve great action. Like all good things, it comes at a cost, removal of fret material. There are a few factors in play. As someone said, lowering frets will need nut work too. An IMHO a flat neck with minimal relief is part of the equation.
This week I bit the bullet on my mandolin. I bought it with fifteen years of fret wear. It finally hit the something has to be done point. I thought it was borderline on fret height. The job came out ok, but the feel changed a lot. After a couple of days I'm getting used to it, but will probably do a refret anyway. Likely will need a new nut. Anyone thinking you won't need work at some point is kidding themselves, which is why I started collecting tools twenty years ago. I still pay to get work done, depending on the instrument. I did the mandolin because it was likely to need a re fret anyway. Nothing really to lose. I may do that too. After all, I did build another mandolin, so I've done it before. But I really don't like the action on the plecked new guitars. Not the pleck, but the ability to set the action too low. It is to me a tone suck to have the low action. But I get it, it sells guitars. Geeze. I'd have to get a new saddle right off.
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the weird thing is, a new taylor 314ce was given to the luthier for a setup and he ended up levelling the frets. i found it difficult to believe that a new taylor would require fret levelling. is it just for reducing action that this was done. somehow the playability does feel "not as good" as the original non levelled frets, but again, that may just be me imagining things.
also, the taylor 314ce itself seems like a difficult guitar to play, with the wide neck and somehow i just can't get the higher fret bars to ring clear. the action is pretty good actually.. so hence i assumed its due to that particular fret being levelled a bit too much.. |
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