Hi!

I saw "Play Loud" instruction-videos with Yngwie Malmsteen where he showed how he filed down the frets on his guitar so that they looked like waves on the fretboard. By wich reason, I don't know, but has anyone of you tried to file down you guitar in order to enhance the sound, make the movement over the fretboard easier or by any other reason?

Please let me know!

Cya!
/Anders Lorén

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I had a nasty accident once - I was changing the strings in the kitchen my little sister (5 at the time) came in and accidentally knocked my guitar off the table. The neck somehow hit a part of a chair and chipped a bit. I sanded down the chipped part. Didn't affect the sound, but gave me a helluva scare.

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Yeah, fret issues can be scary. I don't mess around with that.

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Agree. Don't touch it, unless you don't like your guitar!

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I have a slight scallop (thats what its called) on all of my guitars. Since I play with a very low action too, it makes fretting, vibrato, etc incredibly easy. Especially in the higher frets it makes playing much easier. I've played a 36 fret guitar from Conklin once, and it would have been unplayable past say, the 20th fret if it weren't for the scallop (and even then it wasn't as tiny as it could have been, past 25 it was fretted with a whole tone scale).

It might make playing a bit easier, but that's something that's better left to people with a lot of experience. This isn't something you want to do over the weekend because you're bored.

Quite honestly I'm not a good enough of a guitar player to justify getting that done to my guitar and I don't personally know anyone who is. You might be, I don't know. If you're not sure it's better to be safe than broke, if you are then go for it and let us all know how it goes. But don't do it yourself.

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Yngwie hasn't filed away the frets, but the WOOD BETWEEN the frets. Big difference. His frets are normal Dunlop Jumbo 6100s or 6000s.

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