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Location: SoCal | Frets 1 through 5 are pictured below.
Considering the description, they are not in the condition I would expect.
Do you consider this to be "MINT... Very low amount of fret wear."?
Forget about "Mint" for now... is this a "Very low amount of fret wear."?
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Location: SE Michigan | I wouldnt call it excessive fret wear, but I wouldnt call it mint either. What's the story? An Ebay purchase? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | 2-4 look pretty bad to me. I would consider it to be medium to heavy fretwear on 2-4 and light to medium on 1 and 5. Nowhere near mint. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | No way is that mint. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by BrianT:
What's the story? An Ebay purchase? Yep... eBay.
Forget about "Mint" for now... is it a "Very low amount of fret wear."?
thanks for your input |
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Location: NC | If that is great to mint then all mother's are virgins! |
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Location: Orlando, Florida | Can you say what listing it was?
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Location: Evansville,IN | I would like to see something of theirs with a lot of fret wear. I can just imagine what it would look like. Would one of theirs worn out be in good condition? :confused:
To be truthful, I've never seen one with that much wear. :( |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Something similar to this happened to me a year ago on my 1617 Legend I bought from someone on eBay. He stated in the listing "just back from the shop, frets in fine shape". It didn't look quite as bad as this, but almost. Turned out to be a kid selling it for a friend, and he didn't have a CLUE about guitars.
Luckily, I found a trustworthy luthier who leveled and dressed the frets for me at a reasonable price.
This is why I won't buy any more used guitars on eBay, and why I generally have a "try before buy" policy on any guitar.
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Location: Florida | THat much fretwear is soon to be needing a level.... |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | My oldest O looks a lot like this at the early frets...
This is after almost 10 years of playing, (mostly hard rock and roll playing), but I wouldn't even consider describing her condition as having a "very low amount of fret wear".
That said, she's not doing too badly for a Celebrity. Maybe time to think about re-fretting, but I'm scared of letting someone do that. Postage to the Mothership from UK a viable option do we think? (obviously, it's going to cost, but this guitar really could do with a mighty fine 50,000 mile service).
Any thoughts?
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | JB, I don't think The Mothership would work on a Korean-made Celebrity. USA-made only, I believe.
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? "MINT... Very low amount of fret wear" ?