first build flying v

[brokin009]

thanks again Waz, yeah ill have a look at what you said. you mentioned i give it a little tap if a fret ia too high, what would i tap it with?

[wazkelly]

thanks again Waz, yeah ill have a look at what you said. you mentioned i give it a little tap if a fret ia too high, what would i tap it with?

There are special fret hammers which are not cheap and neither are the nylon faced ones bought at local large hardware stores.

One trick I did on 1st build was to use a bit of timber off cut, mine was maple from a headstock shaping job, and mask off around a fret, place some sandpaper face up on top of the fret, and then gently sand that shape into the off cut bit of timber, but not too deep. This then becomes your reverse fret mould to help with tapping a high fret into place. As I don't have a fret hammer just used my rubber mallet very gently and that seemed to do the trick. Need to have something under neck to support it when doing the tapping and a small sand bag or one of those heat bags filled with wheat or beads did the trick for me.

Hope this helps.