Refretting correctly

[keyvan]

edit 9/8/05 - i am selling the unfretted guitar, just give me an offer. also made a video showing it:
http://www.kebkebeh.com/guitar/fretlessdemo.avi
let me know what you think

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 7349502345
^ go there and bid if you want to buy that peice of poop


I recently removed the frets from this squier strat and messed around with fretless 6-string guitar. I had removed them by heating each fret with a soldering iron such that the glue holding it would loosen up and let me pry the frets out one by one with this method. Now my guitar has been sitting here for a while with the frets back in, but bulging out a bit so that if I restring it the strings will buzz since alot of the frets wont stay in all the way. I need to use some kind of glue apparently, or some other way, I don't know. Any suggestions? (other than tossing the guitar )
Perhaps I'll try crazy glue or epoxy glue. I gotta go buy new strings for it too, cause I bent a string or two on the frets lol. Argh im such a leuthering newb.

fretless (back when i thought it was way cool):
http://www.kebkebeh.com/nofrets.jpg (edit- it is like this again )

now (With the frets not fully seated and my strings effed up):
http://www.kebkebeh.com/iamnotfretting.jpg

^haha look at my electric guitar plugs and stuff, i dont even have a real guitar amp to take it through, i just put it in my brother's (mine now, hes in NJ) yamaha receiver/amplifier and 5.1 speakers. (if you have any comments on this i would love ot hear it, i am still contemplating buying an amp.) I want to sell this PDA thing that i have on ebay (it can go for about 450 or 400) so i am considering getting a really nice guitar in the future, like a semi hollow. alright yeah im hijacking my own thread .bye

[sk8r]

yikes

[hcole]

You might find this site helpful.

http://www.frets.com

and for future reference it's luthierie not leuthering.

[keyvan]

pff i overestimated krazy glue's power

alright i just ended up letting it sit high on one end and i just sanded it down so it doesnt buzz and interfere with fretting other frets. it looks shitty as hell but im glad its a squier that i bought at clearance and FIXED in the first place (haha they lowered the price cause the wood was stripped for the screwholder for the plug/jack, i just drilled a new fatter screw in it and fixed it.

i am about to put the strings back on... going to reuse these strings lol... i wonder how crappy this is going to play/sound


edit - its extremely shitty, it still buzzes, now in random spots, almost everwhere, the frets are crap now. i am just going to make this thing fretless forever. im using the wealth of info on frets.com (thanks for that link, its got great stuff on everything) and am going to sand the fingerboard down and perfect a nice little unfretted guitar neck. sometimes i want to play unfretted

[6_strings_for_life]

AHHHHHHHH

WATCH OUT FOR THAT TIGER IN THE CORNER OF YOUR ROOM

[Appfro]

wow. how did it play fretless? i imagine it sucked since you're trying to put them back on.

[keyvan]

see for yourself. ill record me playing some DMB stuff on it later. lol

i am sure you can master this to play "unfretted-type" music, but for my purposes and interests i think it sounds like crap. though i play it sometimes since i dont want to say i shat 100 dollars away, know what i mean

[keyvan]

here is the link to a little video i just made, displaying my unfretted guitar.
http://www.kebkebeh.com/guitar/fretlessdemo.avi


id like to hear whatever comments you have, and if anyone wants to buy this thing, LET ME KNOW!

[6_strings_for_life]

#1) Is that thing tuned right?

#2) Your playing Satellite wrong.

#3) Thanks for the vid, that was kind of neat.

[keyvan]

1) yeah its tuned right, but im not being entirely accurate (its hard to be) on the frets when i am playing.

2) are you looking at my fingering and saying its wrong from the tab? my fingering is correct, I am playing it a different way (easier to finger and the way my teacher taught me), but its the same notes (again, see above, the reason it sounds /off/). but yeah im not that great yet, i missed some strings and accidentally muted towards the end, and didnt continue the song, so yeah its not right. BUT AT LEAST YOU NOTICED IT WAS SATELLITE

3) NP, my pleasure

[bassman462]

the vid didnt show up, but i can hear it. it just sounds like u have a slide on each finger.

[keyvan]

its encoded in divx sorry.
the original is 40 mb/s, you can (A)IM me (kebkebeh) if you want the uncompressed..

yeah its all slidey stuff, unfretted guitar