How to Replace Yourself Guitar Fret

Muslim Bayudi - The most important part of a guitar is a stringed guitar strings but without the fret will not produce sound well, because the frets on the guitar is used to determine high and low tones produced by the strings, so the blend between the tone will produce a sound that is pleasing to the ear.

What if fret on the guitar we've worn or damaged? Of course the sound produced is not clear when all the frets in perfect condition. So how do I fix this? Yes should be replaced with a new one fret. It turns out that replacing a fret on the guitar is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand,
when fret been replaced turns arises another problem that guitar sound so off-key. This is because the fret height is not the same from one to the other.

The first thing to do is remove all the strings of the guitar body, followed by removing all the frets of the guitar
handlebars. Fret replacement can not be done simply by replacing 1 or 2 fret alone, but must all be replaced. This is because the size and material with the original fret fret replacement is not necessarily the same, so that the flatness and the resulting sound will not be the same.

Removing the frets could use a cutter or a thin screwdriver min, be careful not to damage the neck (guitar handlebars). After all fret apart, make sure the neck in a state of straight and not bent. Check using a rope that held in both ends of the neck, if it does not stick to the middle of the neck strap means being crooked neck, then it must be straightened.

At branded guitar tuner usually fitted bolts located at the tip or base of the neck in the body (for acoustic guitar). Tighten the setting if the neck feels less straight, for guitar without setting can be a way to sand the neck, in order to evenly amplasan use flat wooden beams wrapped with sandpaper. Be careful when sanding, try not to eat too much neck.


After sanding is complete, dalamkan hole to plant a FRET using a thin hacksaw, remember not too deep. When all is ready, now live installation frets. Planting fret fret adjust the length to the width of the neck, if fret too long cut with pliers. Give a little bit of wood glue on the bottom of the fret so fret not easily separated. Of word-word-fret using wooden blocks with slowly so fret not scratched, try fret perfectly planted not tilt to the right or to the left. FRET pairs one by one from the base to the tip of the neck.

Trim the ends of the frets using stingy. Check flatness fret by way of a rope stretched held on both ends, note whether all fret touch the rope, if it does not mean flatness / fret not been the same height. At the highest fret using wooden beams slowly then check again to obtain the same flatness. If FRET is fixed, can be a way to use sandpaper iron mengamplasnya little by little and then check again.

After leveling the same fret, pairs of strings and then check with the way sounds a tone one by one if there is a tone that sounded off-key. In order to view neck that has been sanded look good again, could use a varnish for paint. Up here first own tips to replace worn guitar fret. Hope it is useful ..

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