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I'm not entirely sure on this, but I'm contemplating doing a re-fret on the neck I'm using for my current project (see the Wave Guitar build thread) using pre-cut jumbo stainless steel fretwire. I have done fret level and re-dress jobs several times before with success, but not a re-fret. I figure there is enough information out there on YouTube and elsewhere to help me. Am I right? Anyone else done a first time re-fret on a guitar, and if so how did it go. Any tips at all gratefully received, cheers!
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it's a fine line between refret and regret!
There's a really good vid of someone refretting an Eric Johnson strat with stainless on youtube. I'll link it up later.
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Oh, if the guy in the video had masked the fingerboard properly he wouldn't have had to be so precious with the soldering iron or any other tools.
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25” is not an unusual scale length really after all PRS, Martin and a lot of acoustic builders use it . I would agree finding a 25” scale neck is not that easy as most 3rd party makers seem to only know 25.5” scale as Strats and Tele or 25.5” neck with a paddle head stocks.
Now a bit of self promotion, I can make necks in any of the following scales lengths.
Rather then just list all the scale lengths I do the following is a post of mine form the UKGB forum.
I do a lot of fret slotting not only for the guitars I make but also for many other builders so I thought you might like to see what are the most popular scales lengths that have been used over the last year.
Electric guitars
25.5” 46%
24.75” 35%
25” 17%
24.625” 1%
24” 1%
Classical/Acoustic
650mm 35%
660mm 32%
630mm 13%
620mm 11%
635mm 9%
Bass
34” 87%
35” 7%
30” 3%
32” 2%
31.5” 1%
Plus 1 at 36”
Fan Fret
Guitar 27.5”/24.5” 14 in total
Bass 36”/34” 3 in total
Baritone
27” 14 in total
28” 6 in total
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