How do you deal with sharp fret ends? There are a couple of reasons why your fret ends can seem sharp making the guitar hard and painful to play.
- The guitar was just badly made in the first place…
- The wood has dried out and shrunk a little, so leaving the fret ends poking out.
The cure is the same in each case. This fine old Tokai is suffering from the latter. It’s a good few years old and the wood of the neck has shrunk back just a little.
It’s difficult to see, the picture below is the neck before starting, but the fret tangs are proud of the neck just enough to make playing uncomfortable.
It’s quite a simple job, it just needs to be done very carefully. Take a very fine file and very gently blend in the frets to the level of the wood, without removing any wood.
All it needs now is a proper setup and it’ll be ready to go again…..
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