Comments on: Vincent’s Guitar Workshop – Issue 6

By: Douglas Mattingly

Douglas Mattingly — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:55:20 +0000

I also am looking for Workshop 5…is there a link? Does it exist? Please help!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:16:14 +0000

Maybe I missed it, but I can’t fine Vince’s Issue #5. I can haz linkie?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:27:52 +0000

Hmmm… we seem to have gone from Issue#4 straight to Issue #6.
What happen to Issue #5, the volume used as a source of reference in #6?

By: Robb Roell

Robb Roell — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 02:48:00 +0000

Can’t find Vincent’s Guitar Workshop – Issue 5. Please post.

By: Steven Leek

Steven Leek — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:53:19 +0000

I do fret work for a local store. I like to think I’m not a “hack” but I’m still learning. I spent allot of time reading Stew/Mack’s books, watching videos and giving them insane amounts of money for tools. Everything you’ve said in this article is good, but I wish you had added the step of checking for loose frets. Frets can be so sneaky! After the initial straightening, I rock the frets starting at the body and working back toward the headstock. I sharpie all the high frets, then look damn close at them for loose ends. I’ve seen several guitars with incompletely set frets that are high in the middle. Sometimes, as you know, temperature changes can cause frets to unseat and raise up. At this point I put the neck on a sand bag support and lighly tap the marked areas down (then I put a bead of super glue along the fret to lock it in place. NOW I’m ready for elbo work! I know you have a limit to how much detail you can put in one article, but without this step you can have big problems later on.