LUKE III Refretting

[luiscesaripad]

Hello, everybody!

Well, the time has come that my Luke III HH olive gold all rosewood neck needed a refretting. I took it yesterday to my luthier and will take the opportunity to refret it with jumbo frets in stainless steel. Did anybody here try it with the Luke ? It will be ready by the weekend and i am really curious to see how it will be.

 

[FantasyMetal]

I am curious to hear what your results are like because I am always wanting to refret my Morses and my Lukes with SS frets!

 

[luiscesaripad]

As soon as i get it i will let you know for sure. The waiting is not an easy thing though...

 

[mikeller]

Interested in hearing about this to.

 

[kimonostereo]

Can you let us know if the nut had to be adjusted for taller fret height?

 

[guitvai1]

Both my LIII PDN Neptune came with stainless steel frets that are definitely larger than the standard LIII frets - I'm guessing Jumbo and they feel great!!

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

You must have put in a lot of playtime for a refret! How long have you had it?

 

[luiscesaripad]

I purchased it brand new in the original box, in April 2013. I practicing till february 2014 about 4 hours every day (including weekends) and 4 days in the week in the church for about 1 hour.

 

[luiscesaripad]

I previously asked my luthier about the need of nut adjustment and he said there would be no need. I wish i can trust him, hummmm...

 

[DrKev]

If the frets are taller, there will be a need to adjust the nut.

 

[BrickGlass]

I previously asked my luthier about the need of nut adjustment and he said there would be no need. I wish i can trust him, hummmm...

I'd be a little concerned with your luthier saying that to be honest. Don't see any way that you can put higher frets on and not have to adjust the height of the nut. Not unless they are very minimally higher. You might be able to get away with it if they are just a tad higher than the previous frets, but I'd be surprised.

 

[luiscesaripad]

Yes, i will need to check it. He is a guy building and repairing instruments for many of the great players here in my state, so i think he knows what to do. But who knows...

 

[luiscesaripad]

Ohhh i now called the man. I understood wrong. He said there is no need of REPLACING the nut. But yes, there is need to adjust the height therof. Well, now i feel fine !!!

 

[kimonostereo]

Ohhh i now called the man. I understood wrong. He said there is no need of REPLACING the nut. But yes, there is need to adjust the height therof. Well, now i feel fine !!!

I'd love to see how he did this. Please take photos when you get it back.

 

[luiscesaripad]

The luke is back !!!



I have to say, that i loved my guitar very much, nothing to complain about. But i am very surprised that this guitar could get even better than it was before. The jumbo ss frets brought up more volume, clarity, sustain (it had nice sustain before, but now i see big difference, increasing sustain playing clean), tapping became easier than ever, and it did add a little bit of high frequencies, very very little difference.
I am very very satisfied !!!

 

[luiscesaripad]

Ohhh i liked it sooooo bad!

 

[tommyindelaware]

we have just refretted #1 w/ stainless steel. very very happy w/ the results. and frankly we were quite surprised.

I am curious to hear what your results are like because I am always wanting to refret my Morses and my Lukes with SS frets!

 

[luiscesaripad]

Yes, it is really worth.

 

[stratamania]

we have just refretted #1 w/ stainless steel. very very happy w/ the results. and frankly we were quite surprised.

That's good to hear, my Morse is fairly new but went in for a little work on the nut. I get it back next week. I've got about three guitars with stainless steel 6100 and I'm seriously considering re fretting the Morse when it's out of warranty.

If you don't mind me asking, what size stainless steel went in #1 ?