100%! I am not going to do the prettying up anything if i can't get them put in their home correctly. My spidey sense is telling me i may end up looking at warmoth or something like that for a new neck or something by the end of the week.Greg_L wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:18 pmI don't fuck with frets, but I do know you can't do a damn thing with them unless they are SEATED into their slots. That's first, foremost, #1, gotta do it. There's no point in leveling and crowning frets that aren't even installed properly.WhiskeyJack wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:07 pm
It is a little bit of both actually. I noticed when i started sanding the neck down some of the frets aren't seated in there as correctly as they should be and resting right up on the finger board. The angle of my shop lights do make it look worse than it is as the gap from the bottom of the fretwire to the board as most of the gaps are sub-millimeter but still will need work. My plan is use one of my wide rubber toothed clamps and see if i can squish them down in there maybe. The frets all around need work. leveling and dressing the ends etc but i am not going to do that if i can't address the little gaps.
I feel like that is all stuff i should have done first but for some reason the "instruction book" i got from the manufacturer has all the fret stuff in order after the sanding and finishing.Which doesn't make sense to me if i have to clamp it down or put it in a vice to do all that stuff???
When i run out at lunch to check on something else i got going on i'll snap a picture of the worst offender of the fret gaps. I also feel pretty confident that where this thing has sat around in my basement since 2016 and the winter summer seasonal chnages they may have worked themselves out having never once been played or anything in that time? Again, reason number two why i may just order a neck from warmoth if i can't address those small gaps.
I can't help but wonder if that is why they said to do all the sanding and shit first because a person (with an eyeball) will see stuff like that and can address it afterwards? Kind of like a more hands on in depth inspection maybe?
As you will see in the photos there are very obvious areas where the glue ran and went unseen by me while sanding. Ive no odea how the fuck i missed it but i did. All over but rhe crying now. The tint did not take in those spots. I thought i had done a fantastic job but guess not. Those little shitstains will be staring me in the face for years to come. Although not really. They are sort in odd ball places most folks won't see i suppose. I dont gig. No one will want this when im done with it. So who cares right. 
I think maybe had i started it from scratch things would very likely be different. But yea. I have to remind myself, this is a <200CAD offshore import guitar kit. 
i think it'll look way cooler. 
