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  1. February 28th, 2008, 12:50 AM #1
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    Everyone's very welcome. My pleasure. If anyone can add anything to it, please do. I'm sure everyone does it a little differently and I'm happy to learn all I can.

    Shiner & Strum (and others) - I'm glad to have a place to re-post it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadman
    Everyone's very welcome. My pleasure. If anyone can add anything to it, please do. I'm sure everyone does it a little differently and I'm happy to learn all I can.

    Shiner & Strum (and others) - I'm glad to have a place to re-post it.
    I have been told that if you file across the frets at a 45 degree angle when you are leveling, it helps to maintain the fretboard radius. That, or you use a sanding block which matches your fretboard radius.

    Thank's for the great thread.
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    Great thread !!

    I did this recently on one of my guitars....
    But I used 12" radius block to maintain the FB radius and it worked like a charm. I started w/ 220 then went 350, 500, 600.....Overkill probably but sandpaper is cheap : ) I don't have the crowning tool, so I make shifted a foam block w/ a handle (thinking it would follow the fret profile) lots of elbow grease but it turned out pretty good. Then polished them up w/ 0000 steel wool

    See:
    http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting...ng_Blocks.html

    Teadius work indeed, but well worth the time...
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  4. March 12th, 2010, 11:20 PM #4
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    guitardan777, I have a crowning file if you ever need to use one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by M29
    guitardan777, I have a crowning file if you ever need to use one.
    Thank you my friend, I'll take you up on that next time I see you.....
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    Here's some more great material recently posted by Ron Kirn on another forum. Great detail and lots of tips.
    Ron is well known for his tele and strat style builds. I have one of his tele's and it's wonderful
    http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaste...ele-101-a.html
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