I've got to lose the grip

[gush]

I was putting fresh strings on my ce24 that was sent to prs for a refret back in 2013. I've got divots starting on the bottom 8 frets! Dang

I didn't think my grip was that severe but it must be.

 

[Huggy Love]

How hard you pick with the right hand plays a role too.

 

[gush]

How hard you pick with the right hand plays a role too.

Well I'm double screwed

 

[gush]

Actually, I'm doing a gig tonight with my last band. Birthday party at a bar requested us to play so we are using a different drummer for this. Pretty low key show.

I'm working on dialing back the grip and pick attack. It's tough to change after all this time.

Also, I've ditched the digital processor for this show. Guitar, intex cable, tube amp.
So far it sounds really good at sound check.

See what happens.

 

[bodia]

Actually, I'm doing a gig tonight with my last band. Birthday party at a bar requested us to play so we are using a different drummer for this. Pretty low key show.

I'm working on dialing back the grip and pick attack. It's tough to change after all this time.

Also, I've ditched the digital processor for this show. Guitar, intex cable, tube amp.
So far it sounds really good at sound check.

See what happens.

Intex.....great cables, and a super nice guy!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I was putting fresh strings on my ce24 that was sent to prs for a refret back in 2013. I've got divots starting on the bottom 8 frets! Dang

I didn't think my grip was that severe but it must be.

You know, I don’t understand it either, I’m brutal on frets.

 

[RaySachs]

I was checking out a Youtube interview with Robert Cray within the past couple of days and he was saying that because he uses so much vibrato, he has to get his guitars refretted every six month or less. I obviously don't play as much as Robert Cray and I don't use same guitar all the time when I do, but I use a lot of vibrato myself (hell, it's about my only trick that's any good at all) and yet I seem to be really easy on frets. I had a strat for 30 years (only 10 of which I was playing it a LOT - the other 20 waaaay less) and never had to touch the frets. I'd never really thought of vibrato as a fret killer, but it makes sense it would be...

 

[jxe]

mine are ruined because i chord too hard but i’ve seen worse.

 

[Huggy Love]

Actually, I'm doing a gig tonight with my last band. Birthday party at a bar requested us to play so we are using a different drummer for this. Pretty low key show.

I'm working on dialing back the grip and pick attack. It's tough to change after all this time.

Also, I've ditched the digital processor for this show. Guitar, intex cable, tube amp.
So far it sounds really good at sound check.

See what happens.

Good luck with "dialing back" for playing rock that's hard to do, since I went more in a jazz direction it was easy to adopt a softer touch.
If I stayed rockin', I would have just wore out frets and chalked it up to a business expense.

..... and yes, going straight into an amp without a bunch of processing is a pure sonic connection between you and the axe, it can be really good.
...... you just can't do any U2 covers.

 

[gush]

I was checking out a Youtube interview with Robert Cray within the past couple of days and he was saying that because he uses so much vibrato, he has to get his guitars refretted every six month or less. I obviously don't play as much as Robert Cray and I don't use same guitar all the time when I do, but I use a lot of vibrato myself (hell, it's about my only trick that's any good at all) and yet I seem to be really easy on frets. I had a strat for 30 years (only 10 of which I was playing it a LOT - the other 20 waaaay less) and never had to touch the frets. I'd never really thought of vibrato as a fret killer, but it makes sense it would be...

I can see a few spots where I'm wearing a wider area plus a divot so I'm sure that's it.

I don't play this guitar exclusively so it's surprising to me to see this kind of wear after only 5 years.

I was pretty happy with my tone last night but I use a baffle in front of cab so I can balls it out and I need to do more tweaking at that volume level. I kept dialing back the low end.