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Go for it. Tinker. If you fuck it up, then get a new neck.
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So the debate is ~£40 on tools
I'm terrible at fret dressing, and usually go to the Boatyard guitar workshop to use their skills / equipment when I do do it. However, Dave there put me onto the Stewmac fret Kisser to use when doing this, which is great to use after minimal levelling with a beam.
It's a bit pricey, but much easy to use. If you find yourself doing this often it might be worth a look.
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Also got round to rotating the pickup selector which has always worked backwards for some reason. @RonAsheton - do you recall why that was?
Hey mate! I had no idea it was like that, it came in a box as an extra with the loaded body I got. It came from a young kid, no doubt he'd been fucking around with it and put it back in the wrong way around.
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So I've been gradually reassembling the three guitars I took to pieces a couple of months ago.
After several attempts at shimming the neck on the Scoungeocaster, I gave up and went back to no shim. It means that the saddles are quite low with fair bit of screw protruding, but i just couldn't find a shim that got the balance right so I've reverted, and it's FINE. Also got round to rotating the pickup selector which has always worked backwards for some reason. @RonAsheton - do you recall why that was? I did briefly entertain the idea of repacing all of the electronics but it's not a priority right now.
Next is the Tele. It's been dangling without strings since I decided that I hated the neck (after 20 years of playing it as my main guitar). Still undecided as to whether to try a replacement neck or have a go levelling and dressing the frets myself. I have fret files, i'd just need a levelling beam which isn't an expensive item. So the debate is ~£40 on tools and 50/50 chance of improving and making worse or ~£400 on a neck and it being fully reversable/swapable. Decision needed.