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Posted by Randy S If you can do your own set-ups and are confident in precision woodworking, you should be able to do it yourself. The first one I did was a relatively low cost bass. The second was a G&L.
on 3/6/2005, 9:53 pm, in reply to "De FRet"
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I have defretted two basses and the results have been good. Heat the frets with a soldering gun like Frank Ford at Frets.com does, and pull them gently with flush ground end nippers. Mask everything before youe start. Then fill the slots, and true up the neck with a radiused sanding block, after loosening the truss rod to a sraigh neck with the strings off. Take the nut slots down to about .010" off the fingerboard using special files from Stew-Mac. String up, reset the truss rod, after you set the action down maybe a bit since the frets are no longer there, and set the intonation so it's right on the line at the 12th fret point.
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