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by Daniel Lehrman, Dan

That article brings to mind an conundrum that concerned a nick on the fifteenth fret on a highly upgraded Mexican Stratocaster. It's truly a special guitar.

This particular guitar has Texas Special pickups, a Vintage bridge/tremolo and Sperzel Locking Tuners. It is also set-up with extra low action for bending them strings.

No one likes an excuse. And I am not making one. I don't remember banging or dropping or even smashing anyone or thing with it (and I don't drink or do drugs), but I may have bopped it unknowingly. As a matter of interest, I am a product of the fifties and was a teenager in the sixties, so pardon me if I only have one point five (1.5) active brain cells that remember my past reasonably well!

To summarized the problem in short order, I noticed this scratch on the 15th fret the other day when I was playing and bending really hard above the 12th fret. It snagged or got caught on the fifteenth fret only when I bent the high E or B string one and a half notes and higher.

Realistically, I hate to break a string, however I'm used to that. Further more I change strings every week. More of an issue is hurting my fingers. A cut or scratch or rip job could lay me up for a while. I would probably loose my mind if I couldn't play every day.

Basically you have four choices. #1 is to replace the fret/s. #2 is to buy a new neck and replace the neck. #3 is to use some J.B. Weld epoxy and carefully fill and finish it. #4 is, do nothing.

Four strategies. Which one is the best? Depending on your budget, and a few questions that may come up, like: are my other frets worn or in need of dressing up too? And can one fret be replaced without affecting the playing ability? Should I re-fret the whole neck? Can I use some J.B. Weld epoxy to smooth the fret?

Simply put, all strategies have a positive and negative side.

Most likely, you can buy a new neck and have it installed and set up for less than a fret job. A fret job can run three hundred bucks or more. I have seen new necks ready to bolt on for less than two hundred bucks. Even with labor, that is most likely the most cost effective way to go. Companies like Warmoth,
Stu-Mac and Fret Not Guitar Repair can provide you with so many neck options your head will spin.

Unless the guitar is of extreme value to you, either personally or monetarily, or it plays to sweet to change the neck, go for a new neck. If you are ready for a change or have tried a guitar with a neck shape you like, you probably should consider a new neck. Check the reserve of necks the above companies have to offer. You will want to call them and talk to an expert. It's a complicated subject. You definitely want to get the right neck.

As an experiment, one time when I was more broke than I am now, I fixed a fret with a nick in it with an epoxy. J.B. Weld is the brand I used, but there are many good FAST DRY epoxies in the hardware store, marine store or auto parts house. Fast dry is important. Mix your epoxy properly and thoroughly and with a toothpick put a drop of epoxy and smooth it out as much as you can. This is absolutely temporary in terms of a fix. Strings will wear the epoxy in a short time.

Note: Clean the fret first with a non oily cleaner, not WD-40, but rubbing alcohol or anything that ends in "zine". Be careful not breath it or get it on you.

Let the fast dry epoxy sit for a few hours and then, with a really fine sand paper such as 400 grit carefully sand the epoxy until it is smooth. Finish the fret job off by sanding with a 2000 grit wet or dry sandpaper for extra smoothness. It works, I still play that guitar regularly, but realistically the fret will need replacing in the long run, but it works in a pinch.

Well, hopefully, this clears up the mystifying and scary thoughts on what to do when you scratch a fret. The strategies listed all work, it's in your court to make the final decision. Take time and study your subject, since it has been my experience that the more you know, the better decision you will make.

Enjoy.

If you don't fully understand it. Put it off. Well we have all done it at times. Then comes along one of our offspring and sets up the Sky recorder or DVD recorder for the next few days and we wonder how on earth they just seem to know ?how to? miraculously. The times my daughter has said to me "Dad - here I will do it".
There is no doubt that young people today are very at ease with new technology.

A business looking at adopting a new technology can be much the same. Make a mistake and it can be very costly. Faced with all the technological wizardry of today can be a confusing and difficult path to go down. Okay, so there are plenty of experts out there. But, should it go ?pear shaped? the ?buck? stops with you. Your the one ?under fire?. So faced with this bewildering array, such as which telephone system or service to adopt is a decision very often put off by management.

Additionally off-putting are the staggering and very expensive mistakes we read about by government agencies who seem to get sucked into spending vast fortunes and buying into massive and problematic technological ?headaches?. Then there are some of the scare stories and miss information out there to put us off ? indeed give us the excuse to just stay with the status quo.

Having said the above ? finally the business world is awakening to the new and improved VoIP being pioneered out there. VoIP is really coming of age. Not only is this happening but there is an awakening to the massive savings in communication costs to be had.

So what is VoIP? This is short for Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP is the technology that enables voice transmissions over what normally would be used for data transmissions. So now you can transmit your voice using data ?packets? for your business communications. By using this system your voice is digitally converted into packets, so using a data network, these packets are moved along a path to their destination.

Every one of us uses VoIP without even realising it. VoIP has reached a stage now where the implementation of VoIP as the backbone of modern telecommunications by International companies is a fact. So although you may initiate a normal voice call on your phone it will at come stage be converted into VoIP and back again. This is great for the telecommunications companies but you are left with the same old high costs to pay as always. So what is needed is the means to initiate a VoIP call from the ?off? as it were. This is now happening at a tremendous pace across the world. The reason for the gathering of speed in those signing up for VoIP is it's new reliability, qualiy, and becoming more mobile than ever before.

This has reached the stage where an employee fore instance in the UK can call his company office on Canada on his quite basic mobile phone. Yes, without any special internet connection. Not only is he able to do this but the cost is removed from the normal service provider to a VoIP service that is extremely low cost. Costs so low there is no thought of ?How much is this costing me?. Now this is what we call ? real progress.

To give you some idea of VoIP growth have a look at there figures to follow that I have picked out of various reports.

Swedish users jumped to 410,000 in 2006 from just 219,500 the year before. Almost double in a year. Yet still only 4.5% are using VoIP.

In Scotland 19% of adults now have VoIP connections leading England which has 18% connected. However, in some English regions such as London it jumps to 21% making VoIP calls.

Both Spain and Italian markets are fairly booming with VoIP markets expanding whilst normal fixed line transmissions are declining. These markets are huge. We are talking of markets worth 10's of billions in any main currency such as the Euro GB? or US$ in any one country.

In the UK a new survey has shown that the VoIP market amongst small businesses will double in just one year. Currently around 25% it will be 48% within the year. Add to this the following report that states: 57% of companies with less than two to ten employees and 48% of sole traders are planning to use VoIP in the next 12 months, compared to 20% of companies with 31 to 50 employees.

Last year alone the number of subscribers to VoIP went from 19 million to 40 million. This trend is set to grow ever faster.

What conclusions can we come to with just these few statistics? The fear of the unknown is fading fast. The newer patent pending VoIP services are pioneering new and advanced methods of service, freeing up the VoIP from fixed computer (which was always problematic with ?gap? times) to being mobile in this fast and demanding world.

If you have not as yet taken up VoIP as your main communication means then please contact me and I can advise you on what is the very latest and most mobile VoIP at this time.

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