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What kind of glue it is ?

There is no such thing as a bad Gibson only bad Gibson owners. Gibsons don’t drop themselves. I’ve never had one spontaneously explode. People are Idiots

Brilliant a true craftsman

Votre travail est remarquable. Si je me permets une observation, sans conséquence sur votre excellent ouvrage, vous avez insisté un peu trop sur le sablage et le polissage de la face en haut en decolorant assez visiblement la partie basse de la G de Gibson.

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Whats the cost?

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this bs will never happen with a fender 😴😴😴😴

Does this happen often with Les Pauls?

Great work! I hope I'm not being redundant. What glue did you use on this repair and why did you switch from Titebond? Thanks

Spectacular work on one of the more difficult electric guitar repairs. Always a good idea to video these repairs as there's a real possibility the rod might snap or break at the anchor weld. See also Ted Woodford's video "American Strat Rides the Lightning" where he uses electrical heating to loosen the walnut plug.

Looks like a chinese serial number its probably poly not lacquer

Awesome job! Which glue did you use?

7:45 Так не правильно! Надо не стучать, а давить сразу с четырёх сторон. Всё просто) 10:35 спасибо, что услышал меня заранее) Уже лучше! Так держать! Моя несдержанность меня снова подводит( Простите!

BEAUTIFUL job.

That's insane. Shame on Fender. When I first discovered that Fender painted over frets I decided I would never buy another guitar from a company that would do such a thing. And I haven't since. Even though I prefer rosewood, but it's a matter of principle.

Late to the party. Beautiful work sir. My question is how many hours labor do you feel you have in this amazing repair?? Cheers

Is EVO Gold fretwire mainly used on electric guitars? Because I was debating on having it used as a re-fret on my acoustic- just later on, at a future date.

Nice video. It seems like you are using a router bit with bearing on top to copy the jig 5:26. I am unable to find such a bit for a Dremel. Where did you buy this router bit?

I'm doing my first evenr fret replacement and I went with stainless steel, it was taking forever to file the ends and I came searching to see if I was doing something wrong. Glad to see it's not me 😊 the frets I bought did say it's not recommended for beginners but I didn't listen 😊 after 2 evenings of work, I moved to crowning and I can tell this will take couple more evenings. Let's hope it will be playable in the end. This is my learning experience and I am using a cheap guitar

What was the thickness of the ceder after planing?

What is that metal circle on the bottom of the heel of the neck? My Dean has the same metal circle and there is a grub screw in the back plate that will hit it. I assume it's for adjusting the neck. Other guitars I have do not have that grub screw or the metal plug in the neck heel.

Great work, glad to see that the guitar repaired and not thrown away........

If the player does not want to keep the old fretboard at all, how about use a Japanese saw or a multi-tool to cut all the way through and then plane the neck? I guess it is easier than struggling with removing the layer of glue.

Nice job, as per your usual. I've subbed to many Channels I rarely get to your videos until they're a month or 2 old. Any way, great job!!!!

Do you need to worry about glue getting down in the truss rod area?

Luthiers gotta love CBS necks. 2 tons of polyurethane.. They basically cocooned their guitars back then.

NINETY SIX dollars for that StuMac fret kisser. Their stuff must have some gold content or something. Also, what about nut height?

One thing i never do is leveling SS frets up and down the board.But side to side. That is, if you are using sandpaper only. Since you are using a diamond stone, it might not get the rough top. For anyone leveling with sandpaper beam, always for side to side. not up and down. Or else you will spend many hours sanding away those burs on top.SS needs to be 99% smooth if not it will feel raspy to bend on. But totally worth to check high frets and try and hammer down those tall ones. The less leveling the better.

Work of art that repair

Awesome video. So good.

Thank you for another wonderful video. May I ask; why not try to slide the frets out the other way, as in tapping from the treble side? You mentioned they were slid in from the bass side so I would think they would slide back out from there they came more easily then continuing them out on the treble side? Perhaps there’s a reason. All the best from Canada!

A good v ideo but you relly must stop tuttung!!

How does this happen??

I think you are actually making a mistake hiding the repair on the back of the neck. If I had a repair that good on my PL I would want to show it off. Great work, a pleasure to watch.

идеально!

My toxic trait is thinking that after I watched this I should go try this on my strat… having none of the tools or experience.

What a great job. You are very talented.

Amazing work, a pleasure to watch ... 🙂

Excellent work as always.

Gibson has a lot if wealthy fanboys who will buy another overpriced LP as soon as the neck snaps. They make 💰 money.

Hi David, we are not still in the hospital but wondering if you need that thumb looking at judging by the plaster. Excellent job, as always, those Strat necks are very labour intensive. I think Leo's idea with the bolt on necks, back in the 50's and 60's, was that the necks were so easy and cheap to replace that no one would bother re-fretting them. How things have changed since then.

Thank you Sir for this great tutorial ! When choosing a fret slot sawt , do you go with a saw that has the same width as the fret tang and let the barbs to do their job or a you go little smaller ?

why not heating the fretboard while setting it under tension with the knife? I imagine it should pop off easy with that method ..

Hi David, haven’t watched this yet as we’ve been sitting in A and E for 8 hours but you might want to change the thumb nail of this video to read 70’s Stratocaster not Stratocastor. Lol

also, another good tip t get those frets to basically fall out is to use the truss rod in your favor.. open up those fret slots by cranking plenty of back bow into the neck and open those slots up.. flatten up neck, sand lacguer flat, prep slots accordingly, if you need to cut wider fret slots, add some back bow first, this way you can install the frets with slight back bow, when the neck is flattened out the slots really grab hold of those fret tangs and improve vibration transfer in a big way... experiment with this, no reason you cannot use the truss rod to clamp on the the fret tangs, lotta guys flatten everything up, use sloppy slots then glue.. use a slightly narrower slot for added grip and transfer, if its a new fret slot cut add slight back bow, cut slots, install frets, then when you go level the slots really grab hold of the tangs, you could then, install strings, then glue, no sense glug in frets unless the neck is in play position , proper action . . then glue while in position for obvious reasons .. or just slight narrower fret slots, a few five hundredths or so, get em real tight

you need a much heavier drift, this will utilize your energy more efficiently and drive out the fret in a a few blows, much heavier drift, heavier hammer or dead blow, yea that "punch" is way to small for the job . .

I hope I don't ever find myself with a broken off Les Paul headstock, but should the worst happen, I now know who to contact for a stunningly flawless and very solid repair. It's sad that I have more confidence in my Epiphones (from a potential breakage point of view), but as we know, those Asian manufactured necks have less of a 'break' angle (no pun intended) and are scarf jointed, so.... I think Gibson are in a difficult spot with this design flaw; for them to even consider changing to the Epi method or the filler wood method (or going back to the Norlin Volute), would probably cause purist outrage! Another very enjoyable video, thank you. Paul

Great job as usual! Thank you so much for your videos, they are always such a joy to watch.

I have done maybe 20 refrets in my long life and never tried banging them out like this! Brilliant - I'll be changing my technique for lacquered fretboards from today forward. Excellent easy-to-digest presentation. I have an all-natural Strat like this one (MIM body and MIUSA maple lacquered neck) that's my pride and joy. It's almost heart-breaking to watch the frets deteriorate slowly but inexorably as I play...Thank you 🙏