Tom Blackshear -> RE: Frets eat strings (Feb. 28 2010 11:53:32)
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ORIGINAL: orsonw I have a new guitar, a few months old and the frets really wear through the wound strings very fast- in a week or two. I move the 4th string along after a few days so the frets have a fresh bit of the string to eat. Could a luthier do anything about this, file the frets maybe? This may sound a little strange but I have had this happen to my guitars when I use a harder fret wire as opposed to soft style nickel silver. It's sort of a trade off, to some extent, but I like the softer fret wire due to the problem of wearing out the strings much faster. Also, the softer wire seems to give the sound a little earthier quality rather than a more metalic edge. I'm no scientist but this seems to be very obvious with the different hardness of the frets.
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