Originally Posted by: pureso what you're saying is eventually frets will wear if you bend and frets will cut if you tap?

if thats it then that sucks. i have scratchless spoons and my frets have cuts in them. did the spoon factory get their metal shipments mixed with the guitar factory?

Yeah but we don't eat guitar strings with our spoons. My first guitar a ES335
had a fret that was pushed into the fret board too hard. I was able to take it back. Strings wear & we replace them. how often do we replace our frets.
Also I agree that some fret meaterial is better than others. I wonder how many kinds of fret wire there are? Hey companies make mistakes too, maybe they did mix up the spoon metal with the fret wire metal, one never knows. RTO