Docfishr, can you repeat the second part of the question?
regardless, perhaps if I stop playing it I will let him look at it.
ig:
Please excuse the butt-inski, but he's repeating what I thought, and realize I never posted:
Frets don't look in optimum condition.
He's even probably more correct than I was: I thought they'd been "dressed", meaning milled
and crowned
and polished
But Doc thinks they've only been milled ("ground flat" to remove notches.)and now I think he's right.
"Crowned and polished" means adding a curve back to the top of the frets and polishing 'em for smoothness.
The missing word after "a bit" could be "rough".
I also notice now that some of 'em look like they've got a sharp edge like a saddle on one side, and they're not all even on the same side.
I think now that's why he says they look milled but not crowned.
those edges should have at the very least a slight bevel.
Also, Guild did use a fairly "beefy" gauge of fret wire at one time and Hans has confirmed its use on an F50 seen here a while ago (I think it was a mid '70's but that's not too important here)
What I'm really leading up to is that if those beefy frets were "flattened" a little bit they wound up feeling a lot like electrics and being a little easier to bend, so I remember it being kind of popular when I was kid.
So I'd bet those
are original frets and have been "worked on" for whatever reason, but look like they could benefit from a bit more finishing.
Whenever you can pull yourself away from it.
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