First Build - PSH-1 Hollowbody

[mrpearson]

Day 3 - not going well. When checking the neck relief I realised that the neck at first fret wasn’t straight and hence the first fret was low causing a a bit of rock back on forward further up the neck using the straight edge. I went to re-level the fret but fear I have lowered the middle frets too low as when recrowing I see can see a groove in the fret which I think Is caused by lowering the fret too much and the crowning file cutting in at the base of the fret. Have I killed this neck ????


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[jonwhitear]

I went to re-level the fret but fear I have lowered the middle frets too low as when recrowing I see can see a groove in the fret which I think Is caused by lowering the fret too much and the crowning file cutting in at the base of the fret. Have I killed this neck ????

That looks to me like your crowing file isn't wide enough for the frets. I'm looking at the end profile of the fret that has tape on both sides, and I can see a groove on the left hand side.

I find fret work the scariest part of this business. On my last build, I also had a first fret that was a little lower than the other because of a slight bow at the end of the neck. I ended up levelling them all to match, by which time the flats on the fret tops were quite wide and obvious. In other words, I think you can take quite a lot off without ruining the neck.