Love your video... so different to the others... love how you casually doing all this on the edge of your bed and not going all super technical and you getting the job done with the bare minimum...👍👍👍
Today I shimmed my telecaster's neck with a playing card, adjusted the nut with a 2 euro Chinese tool, polished the frets with car polish, cured a slight buzzing caused by the string trees and put on new strings. Well I thought if he can change a fret on his KNEE...... I really enjoy your videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks TF, I have even been known to adjust the gap in my spark plugs using a guitar string when I could not find my feeler gauge. Merry Christmas. John
Good advice to rotate the worn frets with the high, seldomly used ones. Really great, common sense idea that many would not think of. Thank you! I subscribed.
Bc nobody in their right mind would do that lol. The guitar would look so trashy. If you're going to go through with the risks of damaging your guitar neck from chipping or sanding by replacing a fret string, why not just buy new string? It's inexpensive
It's interesting to note the neck you are replacing a fret on is a Yamaha Pacifica, albeit of older production indicated by the logo. IME current build or inspection QC of production from Yamaha's Jakarta guitar factory is not consistent that same past standard which Yamaha built their reputation upon. IDK what they're *currently* using for fretwire on Pacifica necks, but can attest I'd prefer Yamaha used plasticine instead! At least the incredibly fast rate of fret wear and resultant flat spots on the low grade material they're currently using could be manipulated back to shape without outlaying a modest fortune. OK unashamed hyperbole, but it gets my grievance with the current status quo across. As an owner/player of not one but four Pacificas of various i.e. 11x, 31x & 61x series model and pickup/bridge configs bought between Nov 2017 and Jan 2019, thanks for the vid John. It's pragmatically useful to me and others. Unless I refret myself, its simply cheaper to buy a new 11x series guitar than pay for a shop refret.
Just wondering if you could tell me (as a fellow Scot) how to fix some bad wear and tear on the actual fretboard. There are a million vids out there on how to re-fret your guitar but none on how to fix the actual wood fretboard. Thanks pal.
You need to remove all the frets and reshoot the neck. Plane then sand the finger board until things look right. You will probably still be able to see where the frets were and will have to deepen the slots to allow the new fret wire room to fit. Ideally when sanding the board use a sanding block with a concave underside. You can buy these on line. Of course if the guitar has a bolt on neck then just buy a replacement. Another approach is to think of the depressions in the neck like dents on your car and use filler to build up the board before sanding. The end result will of course look ugly as sin.
Doesn’t seem as horrifying as some articles make it out to be. I have two dented frets on a nice bolt-on Acoustic-Electric, but 5-7 untouched frets up the neck. Likely just get new fret wire, but we’ll see. I have an old beat em up guitar to test this out on first lol.
Holy crap dude. Between the thickness of your accent, and the booming low end and dynamic response of your mic, I could hardly understand a thing you were saying. At first I thought it was in another language! Fortunately I could see what you were doing, but if you spoke any "pearls of wisdom" I didn't hear it.
Thank you so much for your kind racist comment and congratulations on being only the third person to complain about my accent out of 5.5 million! Way to go!
Love your video... so different to the others... love how you casually doing all this on the edge of your bed and not going all super technical and you getting the job done with the bare minimum...👍👍👍
Glad you liked it!!
I love that idea of reusing the short frets at the end of the board.
Today I shimmed my telecaster's neck with a playing card, adjusted the nut with a 2 euro Chinese tool, polished the frets with car polish, cured a slight buzzing caused by the string trees and put on new strings. Well I thought if he can change a fret on his KNEE......
I really enjoy your videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks TF, I have even been known to adjust the gap in my spark plugs using a guitar string when I could not find my feeler gauge. Merry Christmas.
John
Good advice to rotate the worn frets with the high, seldomly used ones. Really great, common sense idea that many would not think of. Thank you! I subscribed.
Bc nobody in their right mind would do that lol. The guitar would look so trashy. If you're going to go through with the risks of damaging your guitar neck from chipping or sanding by replacing a fret string, why not just buy new string? It's inexpensive
Thanks for the tips, John...appreciate it!
Thank you for making this John, you totally gave me the answer I was looking for on, where to find an emergency fret.👍
Glad to help!
Very informative and an incredibly soothing voice x
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm glad I saw this, John, I was under the impression standard frets were dove tail shape slots that frets slide in..
thanks for posting this!.....Good information
Exactly the video I needed. Excellent
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for posting this!
No problem!
great video
Great video! Thanks so much! 😎
Glad you liked it!
thank you 👑
Excellent and concise thank you
Glad it was helpful!
It's interesting to note the neck you are replacing a fret on is a Yamaha Pacifica, albeit of older production indicated by the logo. IME current build or inspection QC of production from Yamaha's Jakarta guitar factory is not consistent that same past standard which Yamaha built their reputation upon.
IDK what they're *currently* using for fretwire on Pacifica necks, but can attest I'd prefer Yamaha used plasticine instead! At least the incredibly fast rate of fret wear and resultant flat spots on the low grade material they're currently using could be manipulated back to shape without outlaying a modest fortune. OK unashamed hyperbole, but it gets my grievance with the current status quo across. As an owner/player of not one but four Pacificas of various i.e. 11x, 31x & 61x series model and pickup/bridge configs bought between Nov 2017 and Jan 2019, thanks for the vid John. It's pragmatically useful to me and others. Unless I refret myself, its simply cheaper to buy a new 11x series guitar than pay for a shop refret.
yeah mate!!!
Just wondering if you could tell me (as a fellow Scot) how to fix some bad wear and tear on the actual fretboard. There are a million vids out there on how to re-fret your guitar but none on how to fix the actual wood fretboard. Thanks pal.
You need to remove all the frets and reshoot the neck. Plane then sand the finger board until things look right. You will probably still be able to see where the frets were and will have to deepen the slots to allow the new fret wire room to fit. Ideally when sanding the board use a sanding block with a concave underside. You can buy these on line. Of course if the guitar has a bolt on neck then just buy a replacement. Another approach is to think of the depressions in the neck like dents on your car and use filler to build up the board before sanding. The end result will of course look ugly as sin.
Doesn’t seem as horrifying as some articles make it out to be. I have two dented frets on a nice bolt-on Acoustic-Electric, but 5-7 untouched frets up the neck. Likely just get new fret wire, but we’ll see.
I have an old beat em up guitar to test this out on first lol.
You could always pick up a cheapy to experiment with?
Holy crap dude. Between the thickness of your accent, and the booming low end and dynamic response of your mic, I could hardly understand a thing you were saying. At first I thought it was in another language! Fortunately I could see what you were doing, but if you spoke any "pearls of wisdom" I didn't hear it.
Thank you so much for your kind racist comment and congratulations on being only the third person to complain about my accent out of 5.5 million! Way to go!