My first refret - please help!

[stratamania]

re cutting frets: again, thanks for confirming In German we say "Lehrgeld", which means learning money. I just paid learning money.

In Dutch it is "leergeld" so at least that word is familiar.

 

[rauchman]

I was wondering if that's really a necessary step. It's not mentioned in the video posted by Stratamania. I mean, if I use a straight sanding block in between removing frets and installing frets (because that's when you use it, right?), will it really affect the radius of the board that much?

In my case, I'm glad I did it. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 1986 or so, my guitar teacher had mentioned that maybe the neck was a touched warped, or maybe the radius wasn't correct. There were always issues with upper fret buzzing, which forced the action to be a smidge higher than necessary. Now, those issues are gone.

I'd wager sanding with a radius block it couldn't hurt, but not sure how that would work for a compound radius fretboard.