guitrkill3r Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I play alot of lead on my Oschar Schmidt Hollowbody guitar. I payed $150 for it and i love it with a passion. It looks and plays beautifully, but i play alot of solos on it, and the frets are a little flat. I play a G with my v-amp2 tuner, and the string is completely in tune, but i play the fret, and its totally flat. Then i hit the middle harmonic on that string and its obviously in tune. I have no clue what i should do about it. I heard "fret action" will do something but i dont know what that is. I was thinking about replacing the frets, but i dont want to ruin my favorite guitar if i mess up. What should i do? (i added that cus it looked cool) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Adjust the intonation at the bridge. Tutorial at ProjectGuitar.com. Your bridge may look different but the concept is the same. You might want to follow all the setup steps (adapted to your guitar). Whether you build guitars or not, if you play them you need to know how to work on them. 2 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorecki Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I play alot of lead on my Oschar Schmidt Hollowbody guitar. Is it one of the 335 type styles or the single cutaway? I picked up one of the 335 styles a while ago and it was an extremely poor guitar, shotty assembly, sad fret job and the stop tail wasn't seated squarely. But I so enjoy making POS's into players! Reason in saying this is I couldn't get the thing setup and in tune without a fret leveling and I expect I'll do a complete refret eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitrkill3r Posted February 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Its the Delta King, but its a single cutaway. Yea at first when i got it the frets were odd and i didnt love it, bt i broke it in and wow, i realized it was a killer guitar. Geeze, it took me about 2 months of picking it up and putting it down, I was more use to my first act strat knockoff, but i cant put it down now. Well thanks guys for helping me, i'll get right on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 i had one of the 335 types and i liked it but, i took off the neck and the neck pocket looked like it was carved using fire crackers, it was beyond messy, looked like some one glued mulch on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Two months and the frets are already worn out? Whoa...another reason to avoid cheapo guitars... Well, I think there's a tutorial on the main site for replacing your frets...if you like the guitar so much, you ought to consider doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishLuthier Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 I'm totaly convinced that a proper setup, without fret leveling will do wounders. Worn out frets will push the notes into the sharp region, so thats definately not the problem here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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