man is it ever dry (rough frets).

[Frantic Slayer]

thats odd cause I live in Florida...and so far so good

[the unrepentant]

is florida not a fairly humid place?

[morsecode]

Room humidifiers and case humidifiers will all help. Winters are the worst where I live as the humidity inside our house gets much lower. A quick makeshift solution would be to soak a cloth or some paper towels squeezing the excess water. Place somewhere in your case where it will not contact the intstrument, and leave the instrument inside the case. Check it daily...you should start noticing improvement over a few days.

[lomky]

Hey all! Thanks for the replies! I've decided I'm going to take my bass in to a good shop here and see what they say about filing the frets down. The amount that the frets are hanging over is pretty much immeasurable (less than a millimeter). I have not been using a humidifier as I want the frets to be as bad as they are going to be when I take it in. I plan on using a humidifier in my case once the frets are cleaned up. I will report how things go.

Wish me luck

[lomky]

I took my Sterling into a local shop today. He commented that it wasn't too bad and the frets just need a little dressing (hopefully ranch, I like ranch). He made a comment that it was interesting that all the frets were uniformly sprouted.

Should tak about a week

[BluesBassPlayer]

Now after he dresses the frets, when the summer comes, and the bass humidifies itself, you will then have the opposite of fret sprout, fret shortage. ???

Now's a good time to find a name for short frets ........

Now you know why I didn't send the Warwick in for a dressing, I knew it would self heal.

Jimi

PS I visited Manny's Music in NYC last year to attend a Tony Franklin seminar. They had a hand made Smith bass hanging there with the worst case of fret sprout I've ever seen. The bass was right under a heating vent and no one cared.

[lomky]

Now after he dresses the frets, when the summer comes, and the bass humidifies itself, you will then have the opposite of fret sprout, fret shortage. ???

Now's a good time to find a name for short frets ........

Now you know why I didn't send the Warwick in for a dressing, I knew it would self heal.

Jimi

PS I visited Manny's Music in NYC last year to attend a Tony Franklin seminar. They had a hand made Smith bass hanging there with the worst case of fret sprout I've ever seen. The bass was right under a heating vent and no one cared.

Yeah, but the sprout is barely even visable, so I expect (hope) that the shortage will not bother me. And really, it's winter here most of the time, and the summers are generaly not that humid.

Guess I'm a wuss