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aschleman
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aschleman
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07/05/2012 4:34 pm
Late....

but, you can get a fret leveling tool from stew-mac.com

this happens to guitars and it's nothing serious. people don't often wear the frets 15-2X as fast as they wear the frets from 1-13/14 so what you end up getting is a "fretout" situation in that area of the fretboard. you can compensate a little with a setup but ultimately you'd have to go to a higher action to completely get rid of it...

Like i said, you can get a fret level and just sand down and redress those frets to match the height of the rest.

you can only do this so many times before you'd need to refret or get the frets dressed.