Fret Rocking

[rainbowreality]

Okay, after doing a bit of reading I'm getting a bit confused as to best practice to find high spots.  Should I br following the string angle on the neck or be parallel with the centre line with my rocker?  As I understand it, if I follow the string travel I'll be measuring for a cone rather than a cylinder and it's going to give a false measurement. Am I right in this assertion?  Any advice appreciated! 

Edited 8 hours ago by rainbowreality

[Dood]

Yes, rock in parallel to the string, including where the string sits specifically as worn spots can affect as well as high frets. Also, make sure your rocker is absolutely true and flat. There's tons of cheap ones on ebay and amazon that fail at their one and only job! 

[JPJ]

Get yourself over to YouTube and look up Paul Richard’s Milehouse Studios. He’s a self-taught luthier, based in Plymouth UK, who has videos on building guitars, but also videos on setting up cheap guitars to be “worldies”. He demonstrates fret rocking and also rectification of high frets in most of these videos (the are normally titled something like “Luthier vs Harley Benton” or something like that. Then again, if you are of a delicate constitution and easily offended, ignore this post and do not look up Milehouse Studios on YouTube 😂

[gary mac]

8 hours ago, JPJ said:

Get yourself over to YouTube and look up Paul Richard’s Milehouse Studios. He’s a self-taught luthier, based in Plymouth UK, who has videos on building guitars, but also videos on setting up cheap guitars to be “worldies”. He demonstrates fret rocking and also rectification of high frets in most of these videos (the are normally titled something like “Luthier vs Harley Benton” or something like that. Then again, if you are of a delicate constitution and easily offended, ignore this post and do not look up Milehouse Studios on YouTube 😂

He is a bit sweary 😂  but that aside is very good.

[Andyjr1515]

@rainbowreality  In terms of just finding high spots that might be causing buzzes, unless you do lots of string bends, the only place you need to check is along the actual string runs.  For a 'quick and dirty' I check with the strings fitted and literally run the rocker alongside the strings at each fret triplet.  If one rocks, I check on the other side of that same string and if that rocks too, note that position for attention. (Clearly this method doesn't work if frets are actually worn into a groove...)

Edited 1 hour ago by Andyjr1515