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Inspector #20

Inspector #20

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Mom brought my first acoustic guitar back to me after sitting over 20 years in the family studio. It's an unknown date Hohner 400N.

Back in the day, several frets started coming loose and I would often have to force them back in jusy to play it.

I ended up pulling the frets and standing all the fingernail grooves out of the fretboard, then I never finished it.

How would I go about finding the correct firewire for this???

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RVA said:
A worthy project. Do you know the metal type? I would measure the width with calipers and find a match. There are plenty of sizes available with specs listed. I would not worry about height since you will be leveling anyway.

Here is a helpful link
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Maybe I can measure a few of the frets that I have left and find a replacement???
 
RVA said:
It is less of an issue of you use crazy glue. Then it just has to be a reasonable fit. Installing frets with a "natural grab" results in tear-out upon the next re-fret.
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Really? Crazy Glue? I thought that was a fret no-no???
 
Robert Herndon said:
I meant the tang most specifically...perhaps just a bit oversize???
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For some reason people do not understand frets by the tang. Nor do they normally pay any attention to tang measurements.
There is no standard tang on frets.
Using over-sized tang will cause the neck to bow outward.
Using undersized tang, the neck will bow inward.
Even many luthiers ignore this...

It's sort of like the angle of the nut slots....which are frequently cut wrong also.
 
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