not sure if theres anyone who makes business of it but a lot of musicians can mke good jobs of it, if it comes down to it, DIY guides are all over the internet
Can anyone please recommend someone in Caithness who can properly dress frets and set up a good guitar action?
Thanks
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not sure if theres anyone who makes business of it but a lot of musicians can mke good jobs of it, if it comes down to it, DIY guides are all over the internet
Fret dress I wouldn't tackle myself (but then again I am a clutz).
Set up for a good action just requires a bit of time and patience. Be sure to adjust things a little at a time.
Lots of guidance on the net. I bought a set up book from Amazon a few years back. Best tenner I ever spent after shelling out £40+ for shop set ups in Aberdeen.
I'd say if you can do fairly neat DIY, you can level your frets. You need some sort of dead flat sanding block. I cast a cement one on a mirror.
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-tech...ele-101-a.html
I went over my favourite guitar and did find some high ones and levelled them but I couldn't get the action much lower even after that.
The bit that's really worth doing is getting the nut slots deep enough, I find.
Thanks y'all. Fret dressing is really where I'm coming from. After 35+ years of playing and setting up guitars, I have reached as far as I can on my guitars. I have one or two with frets which need dressed as the strings choke when bent. Given that these are good quality guitars its not something I would like to attempt myself. I have filed frets in the past - and quite successfully - but on Squiers, not Gordon Smiths or Fenders.
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