Question Refretting a JP6... with BIG frets?

[Tollywood]

It's all good mate, sometimes it's very easy to misjudge the meaning of a post via the computer screen. I'm sorry.

No apology necessary, my good man. You are right, a few brief words without the benefit of facial expressions and the tone of one's voice make it easy to misinterpret one's meaning. Sometimes I can be pretty brief as well as pretty direct, so I totally understand how I may come across the wrong way. I'm sorry about that.

Thanks for the emg tone advice in the PM, by the way!

 

[damirpuh]

More questions:

1) Did your guitar originally had a bone nut? If not, why did you choose it?

2) Did you compare it to the JPX, which has stock jumbo frets?

1) No, I had a standard MM nut. The bone nut was tech's suggestion.

2) Sorry, I don't know about the JPX situation, I'm just sharing my really-big-fret-experience.

 

[uOpt]

If you don't like how it plays, change it or sell it.

As people said, a new nut is probably required with higher frets, but not definitely so as nuts tend up be decently high and nobody knews your preference wrt how low action versus how freely swinging strings you want.

However, the nut on the JP6 always bothered me anyway for my playing. Because although the JP6 has a 43mm nut the string spacing is very narrow, much narrower than normally for that nut width. I think somebody in the MM factory got too used to the 41mm nuts. If I had a JP6 right now a new nut with the regular string spacing for the wider nut would be a definitely change.

 

[Rachmaninoff]

However, the nut on the JP6 always bothered me anyway for my playing. Because although the JP6 has a 43mm nut the string spacing is very narrow, much narrower than normally for that nut width.

That's true.

For comparison, I found something interesting. The spacing on an Ibanez Jem is wider than the JP6; however, the spacing of an Ibanez Universe (the 7-string Jem) is slightly narrower, and exactly the same of the JP6. I'd say this is not a coincidence.

 

[Pablo]

I'd venture to guess that JP prefers to have the same string spacing on his 6- and 7-string fiddles... Going from a Jem to a Universe there is a noticable difference in string spacing - IMHO the JP/EBMM approach makes much more sense.

Cheers

Eske

 

[luiscesaripad]

My Luke 3 came back yesterday from refret. It was re fretted with jumbo stainless steel and i am amazed. Just a small shim under the nut. Very easy thing.