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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:27 am 
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I do not find a lot of information on this and I actually rarely do it but, this is regarding fretting a "new" maple neck, spraying lacquer over the fret board and then " the best way to remove the lacquer off the top of the frets"? Thanks....


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:11 am 
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Dress em! [:Y:]

The fret dressing, leveling, and recrowning process will get rid of the lacquer on the frets. Be sure to use masking tape on the board between the frets and having several different widths of tape will make applying the tape easier. The 1/4" is the hardest tape to find and we have been known to slice a 1/2" roll in half for this but be sure to be safe in your approach if you do.

Moving ahead a year or so with a lacquered, maple neck when you want to clean up the board and frets naphtha works well to remove the green slime.... :D followed up by some polish. Naphtha won't hurt the lacquer on the board. Be sure too to take the paper towels or what ever you used with the naphtha and dispose of it in a manner consistent with disposal of flammables.

Any neck pre-fretted or not, commercially produced etc. still needs to have a fret dress - trust me.....

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Hesh is right. ALL new factory-made guitars need the frets dressed. Something owners of newly purchased guitars often don't like to hear.

You can get all the sizes of tape you need here: http://www.grainger.com/product/3M-PREF ... ape-15C059

One more tip: Do not use a marker to color the tops of frets on a finished Maple neck (a common technique used to see your leveling and crowning progress) because the ink can bleed inside the lacquer on the side of the frets and stain the Maple.

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One more tip: Do not use a marker to color the tops of frets on a finished Maple neck (a common technique used to see your leveling and crowning progress) because the ink can bleed inside the lacquer on the side of the frets and stain the Maple.


True dat.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:20 am 
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Thanks a lot guys'...got it...And I have been looking for that thin tape too.


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Businesses that sell auto body supplies will normally have tape in various widths from 1/8" and up.

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The older Fenders I have looked at were not recrowned. They still had finish on the sides of the frets....meaning they just sanded to tops of the frets with a flat block.

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Note that tape will soften some lacquers.
Don't leave tape on for an extended period.
I learned the hard way.
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