fretie
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Now that I am back from my whirlwind ukulele building course on Oahu, I've had a chance to listen closely to my new spruce top, koa body tenor uke. Though we spent two weeks on the build it wasn't until yesterday afternoon, our final day in the course, that we were actually able to string the ukes up and listen to them for the first time!
With so much excitement and noise in the shop it was hard for me to hear the subtleties of the instrument. In the quiet of my home I have identified two frets, well part of the frets, that are causing a buzz. Specifically, under the G string, fifth fret and under the A string 14th fret.
I think what I need to do us to file these frets down a little. Wish I knew this while at the shop because there were fret files aplenty there but I don't have any tools like this at home. Is there something commonplace that I could use as an alternative to a fret file or should I just take the uke in to a good luthier to have these little details tweaked?
With so much excitement and noise in the shop it was hard for me to hear the subtleties of the instrument. In the quiet of my home I have identified two frets, well part of the frets, that are causing a buzz. Specifically, under the G string, fifth fret and under the A string 14th fret.
I think what I need to do us to file these frets down a little. Wish I knew this while at the shop because there were fret files aplenty there but I don't have any tools like this at home. Is there something commonplace that I could use as an alternative to a fret file or should I just take the uke in to a good luthier to have these little details tweaked?