Fretboard removal question | My Les Paul Forum
182. Aug 19, 2009. #3. Use a thin bakers spatula. I have several, some with offsets and some straight. I grind the front edge of the spatula to be thinner but not too sharp. The spatula will heat up while it is in between the neck and the fingerboard allowing it to move through the glue joint easier.
ES-339 Fret Buzz/Clank Issue on just one note!? - Gibson ...
Hi all! I just picked up a great Gibson CS ES-339 at my local Sam Ash. Plays and sounds great. While I was there, they put new strings on it, adjusted the truss rod, cleaned it, oiled the fret board, and adjusted the pickup hight.
How low is your acoustic action? - Acoustics Discussions ...
On my guitars strung with 12's I generally aim for 3/32" to 2/23" at the 12th fret with as little relief as possible ( typically settling at .003" / .004" at the 7th fret ( it tends to vary from guitar to guitar, but always as close to straight as feels right ) There are, …
20 Tips for Guitar Care - aws2.gibson
Tip #3 If cleaning your strings when still on your guitar, loosen them slightly and pinch your cloth around the whole string to banish finger and fretboard grime. Fresh Fretboards Your 'board doesn't need too much love, possibly only two or three times a year.
Gibson J-15 fret heights - Gibson Acoustic - Gibson Brands ...
Gibson puts the frets in the fretboard before they put the fretboard on the guitar. They start at one end of the board and work to the other end. The fretboard is thin and flexible and when they press not hammer, the frets into their slots this forces the fretboard to change shape as the fret slots expand with the new fret.
Ibanez rg string action problem. Plz ... - Ultimate Guitar
1.5-1.7mm at the 12th fret (going down to 1.00-1.25mm on the high E) sounds about right to me. What are your measurements at the 12th fret?
What the Heck is PLEK? - aws2.gibson
Then the guitar enters the PLEK device and the machine simulates the string tension again while scanning the frets. The machine's on-board computer takes a 3-D graphic look at the fretboard surface, including the simulated position and height of the strings.
Scale Length Explained - StewMac
If your 1930's Gibson L-OO, for example, measures 12-3/8" at the 12th fret, then your guitar's scale length is twice that—a 24-3/4" scale. For good intonation, the guitar's saddle will be placed so a little extra string length is added.
How Much Fret Wear Do You See? - Telecaster Guitar Forum
Some thick poly on the board makes low small frets even lower though as the pooled thick finish might make a .040 fret effectively only .030 above the poly. The old Gibson fretless wonder necks often showed no fret wear for decades, possibly because the board stopped us from pressing the strings down far enough to really grind down the fret wire.
Strings grinding/scratching against the frets - Ultimate ...
Hi, recently when I'm bending strings, sometimes I can feel them kind of "grinding" up against the fret bar. This can happen every once in while for a …
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The Great Big Gibson Fret Nib Debate — Haze Guitars
This binding will, initially, stand proud of the frets and board,and will be cut and scraped down to the appropriate height and shaped around the fret ends. If you look closely at the binding on a Gibson chances are good you'll find some small amounts of roughness, some inconsistencies, and some 'chatter' marks from the scraping process.
How Do I Fix Notches In Frets? | Telecaster Guitar Forum
Lightly stone the frets :- remove strings, loosen truss rod and take a very large very fine flat oil stone and gently run it up and down the neck over the frets, side to side too. Evenly. Until the nicks are just gone from the fret tops. Do not demolish the nut.
excessive fret buzz after new strings - Gibson USA ...
The guitar still had the factory strings on it and the guitar played like a dream and had no buzz at all. When I changed the strings I was real careful to put the correct gauge back on it and change each string one at a time. When I got it tuned and strummed a few chords I noticed that my G, D, A, and low E all had buzz up and down the fret board.
Fret sizes on historics? | The Les Paul Forum
However, so many times by the time I have had the guitar for a couple of days and have had time to set it up right and put my strings on it, the frets were not what I wanted. I think I've gotten rid of some really nice guitars for that reason. To me, frets are as important as any part of the guitar in terms of playability and sound.
Gibson Les Paul fretboard thickness? | The Gear Page
Just wondering for my own curiosity; anyone who has a Gibson LP can you tell me how thick the fretboard is? I was looking at a 2017 LP and they say they have a thicker fretboard. I measured one and it's about 6mm thick. I'm wondering how that compares to a normal one.
Fret Grinding Question | The Gear Page
By "fret bars", do you mean that your guitar has a "zero fret" instead of a nut? If you have troulbe making a barre chord, and rounder (vintage) radius will help - maybe a 7.25" like an old Strat or Tele. Buzzing comes from several things: 1) Strings are too low to the frets. 2) The frets are not level to start with. 3) Too much relief in the neck.
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What causes Fret Buzz? ... and How to Fix it!
The guitar string is being fretted at the first fret (by an invisible finger). Uh oh. Fret #2 is taller than Fret #1, which results in there not being enough space between the top of Fret #2 and the bottom of the guitar string. That means the guitar string will rattle/buzz against Fret #2 every time the guitar is fretted and played at Fret #1.
Jumbo frets?? - Ultimate Guitar
Jumbo frets means that the fretwire is larger/bulkier/higher than medium/small/large frets. It helps with control over the string and makes bending/vibrato easier. …
Minimum needed for fret leveling? | TalkBass
Now, with the neck held backbowed, we use a flat stone or sanding beam to grind the tops of the frets all to the same height. That is, Flat. Note: When you are grinding something Flat, the grinding stone or sanding beam doesn't need to be as long a the thing you are grinding. That is, the stone or beam doesn't need to be as long as the neck.
Gibson OO build | MaterialAlchemy
Then I measured the nut and 19th fret on each guitar and laid them out on paper (they were pretty close) to make sure my string spacing was ok. Since I had three, I made a drilling template. Of course I used plexiglass, which seems to be my favorite. For precision, I like to scribe things, and plexi scribes really well.
The Great Big Gibson Fret Nib Debate — Haze Guitars
Gibson binding fret 'nibs'. Agh, the binding nibs. Those little bits of neck binding on a Gibson guitar that stick up at the end of each fret. These nibs can cause some players a lot of concern when it eventually comes time for a refret. Before we get to that bit, though, let's actually consider the nibs themselves.
Frets in the wrong place: best compromise? [Archive ...
I have a collection of Martin guitar boards which, when laid side by side, show how egregiously inconsistent their fret cutting rig was. Like Gibson boards, you'd lay them side by side with—if you were lucky—the nut and the 12th in alignment, and then you'd see how utterly "off" some of the other frets could be.
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How to bind a fretboard, Gibson-style - StewMac
Gibson started shaping bindings at the fret ends nearly 100 years ago. After fretting the board, they slapped on the binding then scraped the heck out of it between the frets. The "nibs" remaining at each fret end give a dressy look to the more expensive Gibsons.
What causes Fret Buzz? ... and How to Fix it!
Three common causes for fret buzz: (1) uneven frets (2) excessively low string action, and (3) a back bowed neck. Just one of these problems is enough to cause fret buzz, but often times a guitar has a combination of these three problems all at once.
Adding a zero fret | The Gear Page
2) Alternately, choose a stainless wire that is perhaps .020" higher and reshape the fret crown so as to mimic the staggered action of a traditional nut. Re-crown the new zero fret so that the contact surface string/crown is a steady .010" wide.
Amount of time to wear down frets? - Ultimate Guitar
The frets on my Jackson DK2S have noticeable wear after about a 1 1/2 years,while the frets on my 7 string and Warmoth guitars have no problems …
Strings grinding on frets - Gibson USA - Gibson Brands …
Seems every guitar I have had except my 1980 guild, will occasionally grind when bending. It seems as though the string is taking metal off the fret. Usually a few more bends will fix the problem, but then I can visually see a scratch on the fret. I have used fret ease, but it …