My first time taking apart a guitar.....

[PRSfanboy46]

Well recently my dad told me if I wanted to mod and experiment on guitars I can get a cheap guitar. So I decided my first, beat up squire strat would be perfect! I gutted the body and I am going to refinish it. The neck............. Oh boy! I am refretting it at the moment and I have already had to patch up THREE spots so far with rose wood dust. I am tapping them out (so much harder than soldering the frets and heating them up) and its satisfying to tap them out but heating them up would be so much easier. Anything I could do to fix up potential spots where there is chipping?

 

[toothace]

Well recently my dad told me if I wanted to mod and experiment on guitars I can get a cheap guitar. So I decided my first, beat up squire strat would be perfect! I gutted the body and I am going to refinish it. The neck............. Oh boy! I am refretting it at the moment and I have already had to patch up THREE spots so far with rose wood dust. I am tapping them out (so much harder than soldering the frets and heating them up) and its satisfying to tap them out but heating them up would be so much easier. Anything I could do to fix up potential spots where there is chipping?

Stop tapping them out...

Look up dan Erlewine or Stew Mac regret...he has a good video of how to do this...

 

[DISTORT6]

https://www.amazon.com/Amplified-Parts-FP01-Fret-Puller/dp/B00BLQ0D2C

 

[PRSfanboy46]

https://www.amazon.com/Amplified-Parts-FP01-Fret-Puller/dp/B00BLQ0D2C

I need one of these desperately. I could solder them out with heat and the pull them...

 

[PRSfanboy46]

Stop tapping them out...

Look up dan Erlewine or Stew Mac regret...he has a good video of how to do this...

I watched his video on using heat to remove them.

 

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Pics or it’s a Hello Kitty Uke

 

[PRSfanboy46]

Pics or it’s a Hello Kitty Uke

I will post my setup later!