Refret- sending neck only?

MLten80

Is there anyone recommended who would just do the refret & level?

I'm confident in setups & top nut work

Would I save any £?

Soz, vague pondering refret on my 1979 strat, dont fancy the fret work bit   

axisus

I wouldn't send neck only, I would think that anyone decent would want to string the guitar up to check it.

MLten80

Gotcha cheers bud

Will have a think & a look who's any good in the Midlands areas

ICBM

It's perfectly possible to send a neck only. Anyone good can refret it properly without needing to put it back on the guitar to check it, even though it's useful to - but if fretted and dressed correctly, it would be rare for it to need any extra work once refitted.

MLten80

Cheers, any recommendations? 
 
 It's my only significantly valuable guitar or I'd do it myself  

FelineGuitars

If it's a 4 bolt neck we can do it because we use the stewmac neck jig with a surrogate body and your chosen string gauge too

We can do everything so you can bolt it onto your guitar and just set up the string height and intonation and play

brucegill

FelineGuitars said:

If it's a 4 bolt neck we can do it because we use the stewmac neck jig with a surrogate body and your chosen string gauge too

We can do everything so you can bolt it onto your guitar and just set up the string height and intonation and play

Just out of interest, why would string gauge matter? Have to get down to you one day, only hear good things! 

MLten80

It's a 3 bolter maple if that makes a difference 
 What sort of turnaround do you aim for @FelineGuitars?
 
 My main issue is the fallaway someone has done in the past has left the 12th fret onwards a little flat fretted. Plays ok. Just trickier than the mint one 

https://imgur.com/a/b7sHWwz pic for good measure 

FelineGuitars

brucegill said:

FelineGuitars said:

If it's a 4 bolt neck we can do it because we use the stewmac neck jig with a surrogate body and your chosen string gauge too

We can do everything so you can bolt it onto your guitar and just set up the string height and intonation and play

Just out of interest, why would string gauge matter? Have to get down to you one day, only hear good things! 

Because we set the guitar neck dead straight under string tension in the jig so we can replicate any odd things that happen with the neck being compressed by the strings and truss rod. Then we are in full control of the neck in the state it would be in when playing, and can carefully level and control fallaway accordingly in a way that you couldn't do by just laying a straight neck on the bench to level frets etc.

You can see the process here if you are interested.......https://feline-guitars.myshopify.com/pages/Anatomy-of-a-Fret-Dress

brucegill

FelineGuitars said:

brucegill said:

FelineGuitars said:

If it's a 4 bolt neck we can do it because we use the stewmac neck jig with a surrogate body and your chosen string gauge too

We can do everything so you can bolt it onto your guitar and just set up the string height and intonation and play

Just out of interest, why would string gauge matter? Have to get down to you one day, only hear good things! 

Because we set the guitar neck dead straight under string tension in the jig so we can replicate any odd things that happen with the neck being compressed by the strings and truss rod. Then we are in full control of the neck in the state it would be in when playing, and can carefully level and control fallaway accordingly in a way that you couldn't do by just laying a straight neck on the bench to level frets etc.

You can see the process here if you are interested.......https://feline-guitars.myshopify.com/pages/Anatomy-of-a-Fret-Dress

Thanks for that! Very interesting. I’ll have a read

brucegill

A good read! Many thanks @FelineGuitars ;