yank those frets out

Anything about hardware musical instruments.
Post Reply New Topic
RELATED
PRODUCTS

Post

Lost an eBay auction on a 7-string nylon fretless Friday (kinda glad now since it was unlined), and then got a wild hair and pulled out the frets on this crappy Chinese classical guitar of mine. Used big toenail clippers and a soldering iron to do it, and it wasn't hard at all. Didn't even pull out any chunks of the board, though that might be due to less than stellar original installation of the frets. Did manage to burn the old fingers a few times and singed the fretboard in a few spots due to inattention. lol. Sanded the board (didn't have any wood putty but plan on filling in the slots eventually). Seems to work great without any putty, though.

Image

Image

Anyway, it's a lot of fun to play. Chords are out of the question, though some can do it (hunt on YouTube for some great stuff), but for melodic things, it's already giving me ideas and challenging my ear in good ways.

I highly recommend just going for it if you have an interest and also have a nylon-string guitar you're not doing much with. I whipped up a cool "Amazing Grace" on one string and you start to get a feel for the intonation thing pretty quickly. Surprised me. I did have to file the nut and bridge plastic thing to get the action super low (well worth the effort).

Then Saturday night I spent some time making paper spaceships with a little cousin of mine. So far, a fun weekend full of odd using-of-the-hands projects.

Image
Image

Post Reply

Return to “Hardware (Instruments and Effects)”