Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - Refret a '76 Tele Custom

Spudrok · July 28th, 2005, 04:30 PM

Thanks a bunch guys! It's really hard to choose unless you can play a neck just like the one you intend to refret with the fret candidates.

I appreciate the suggestion of replacing the neck, but I will never sell or trade this guitar because #1: I dearly love the instrument and #2: I got it from a dear friend who somewhat recently had surgery for prostate cancer. I'm glad to say that so far everything looks good on his cancer treatment. It would just destroy me if I sold this guitar and then his cancer reared its ugly head again (I'm not nutz enough to think that reappearance of his cancer would be caused by me selling his guitar, but I would no longer own that proud momento). So collector's value means little to me because I never intend to sell it. I would never do anything as far out as putting a Floyd Rose wang bar on it, but frets wear out and require replacement just like tires or fan belts on a car. I consider the selection of replacement frets an opportunity to enhance the great instrument that it is.

July 28th, 2005, 04:30 PM	#9 (permalink)
Spudrok TDPRI Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Mid-TN Posts: 90	Thanks a bunch guys! It's really hard to choose unless you can play a neck just like the one you intend to refret with the fret candidates. I appreciate the suggestion of replacing the neck, but I will never sell or trade this guitar because #1: I dearly love the instrument and #2: I got it from a dear friend who somewhat recently had surgery for prostate cancer. I'm glad to say that so far everything looks good on his cancer treatment. It would just destroy me if I sold this guitar and then his cancer reared its ugly head again (I'm not nutz enough to think that reappearance of his cancer would be caused by me selling his guitar, but I would no longer own that proud momento). So collector's value means little to me because I never intend to sell it. I would never do anything as far out as putting a Floyd Rose wang bar on it, but frets wear out and require replacement just like tires or fan belts on a car. I consider the selection of replacement frets an opportunity to enhance the great instrument that it is.