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Isn't that the way it aways goes? Make a plan... Buy the crap you need... Then after the fact find out you had the stuff to do it in the first place. Sorry to hear you broke your $50 nippers Grant. Maybe it was a defect in the manufacturing and you can get a new pair... :shhh: Good to see you are ba...

Nice looking Tele, I have an American Standard and it is my favorite electric (even over my Strat, and I LOVE my Strat)

Bob

Grant, If you are planning on doing a few guitars with these frets you might think about having them cut on a water jet CNC machine. All it would take is to have an accurate drawing of each fret with the radius you need. They could cut an entire sheet of them out with one process. If you did a "...

Nice work Grant, Good to hear you are looking forward to rehab... or at least the nurses. :lol: :lol: :lol: I bet those frets will look really great when they get all polished up. I am a bit surprised you didn't use copper for your fret markers, that would have given it a very distinctive look. I am...

Grant, Thanks for that explanation of what you are doing, It sounds like a reasonable experiment considering a lot of people think the neck plays no role in the sound of an acoustic guitar. I personally think the neck does have an effect. My reason is only based on the fact if you put your ear up to...

Hey Grant, I saw your post after you got out of the hospital and thought to myself " Yea Sure... I am sure he is going to be working on a guitar..." I was going to ask you about these copper frets but I thought it was something that everyone knew and I didn't want to ask about it because I...