lucindrea

ok .. dunlops site is so easy to navagate that i compleatly missed a whole section of fretwire ( sometimes all the cool flash , java , etc just makes sites hard to find anything on ) i was looking at the accu-frets not the jumbos.. i kind of like the feel of .1 width ( 2.5mm ) with a .05 ( 1.27mm ) height for good room to level ... so it looks like so it lookes like the 6170 's are right where i want them so i'll get a few feet of that .. the worst frets are 19 and 20 so i'll test on them without any glue first , i'll probly end up useing a drop or 2 here and their unless my mesurments are wayy off and even those dont fit and any re-doing those frets if i mess up is not a problem as that part of the board can be ramped slightly anyway. thanks for pushing the 6170's , probly saved me alot of frustration .. now the problem is finding someone that acctully sells them ( no real reasion for this smilie .. i just like him )

i looked at dunlops stuff .. doesnt look like i will be able to find what i need their ( their largest i could find was .6mm thats .0236 inch .. just a hair wider than stewart mcdonalds stuff ) .. looks like an epoxy dust mixture .. should be ok , ( eyes the JB weld tubes on the end of the desk , then dismisses it as overkill hehe ) ... acctully , now that i think of it .. do i really need to dust? it's not like it would ever been seen .. of course having good wood in their would probly effect the sound .. chould probly jam those cheapo flat toothpicks in their ( not the rounds ones ) ... looks like i will be looking into more than a few methods oh .. i looked at the frets i pulled out ( almost fell out ) .. they ALL look like someone went over them with fret pliers thanks for the advice on the pliers :-) ... hehe simple refinishing of this guitar is turning into an adventure

ok answered my own question .. stewert mcdonald has a pair of pliers made just for resizing tangs of frets to fit in oversized slots for the price it's probly worth getting as everything else would be just too much work or about the same cost.

ok .. got me some fret wire and my neck is all sanded , leveled , and shaped .. problem is ( basicly why i needed to re-fret ) the tangs of the fret wire is too thin .. either the neck was bowed back more than i thought ( i doubt as the slot width is the same on all frets ), or the wood did some shrinking , or they were just off sized frets in it before , but i can put the frets in the neck and pull them out agin with my finger tips .. so the frets are loose ... i have read that mixing dust from the sanding and some super glue can be used for simple repairs on fret slots ( fill slot , re-saw slot ) .. is this ok? .. or would i be better spreding some wood filler over the neck then sanding it smooth/level ? and if so , what filler would you recomend .. the fret board is maple i belive ( light colored , like ash almost ) ... is their a fret out their that has a thick tang? i checked stwert mcdonald and all their frets say they should be in a .023" wide slot , and mine are closer to .03

want to know whats weird ... i can do a guitar much much better in 3dMax , only because their are tutorials written for it and i cannot find any for cad ... ironicly , 3dmax is probly much more complex than TC

my brother lives just south of lake okichobie ( i know i didnt spell that right ) .. thats about 1 hour drive inland from FtMyers ... their main concern was the dikes breaking .. as of last night he says that the lake is fine , just some minor flooding for those who live right up next to it ... ALOT of downed trees , loss of power etc ... he's going out to the house he's having built today and seeing if it still has a roof ( it's just concreate walls and a roof right now ) the problem with that is , because it's not compleatly built , he cant get it insured , so if it's damaged , it comes out of his pocket ... his brother inlaw lives next to the lake and he was worried about getting in touble if he couldnt make it to work this past weekend .. basicly his whole famaly told him to screw work and get the hell out of their ( he has 2 toddlers ) ... so last i heard he was up in georga. **edited cauz my gramer stinks**

acctully i had about 3 windows open and i posted in the wrong one .. sorry aout that .. as for using the table to check ... it was just a quick check ( losts of buzzin on that neck and i figured i would look into it while i have it apart ) .. and when you get the same result on a table top , a pice of slate , and the top of a table saw , it's a good bet that the neck is the problem and not the table :-) ... i'll explore all my options before looking to that tutorial .

ok i'm redoing an old guitar i got a few years back .. one of those $5 garage sale ones ( no one on several forums knows what it is either , if your curious , check out http://www.lucindrea.com/guitar/what.html ) so after removing the acrylic paint , it turns out their is a decent wood grained body ... my problem is in the neck ... it's bowed , backwards .. in other words , with the truss as loose as it goes , placing the neck on a flat surface , frets down , their is space under the first 3 frets and also the 20th and 21st ... this isnt a matter of leveling frets as far as i can tell ... putting a stright edge allong the seam of the neck and the fretboard i can see the bend , it's slight , re-leveling the frets MIGHT work once it's stringed.. so my question is , how hard is this to fix .. can i pull off the fret board , sand the neck flat and re-do the board ... or am i better off just going and getting a replacement neck? ... i've never re-freted a neck so it would be an adventure for me ( although probly a good learnign exp ) and i really dont want to spend more on tools to do it then a new neck would cost.