Scallop Your Guitar Frets!

For those of you who don't know, scalloping guitar frets involves sanding down the fretboard between the frets. I won't be held responsible for irreversible damage done to the fretboard.

So first things first, do you really want to do this?
- Bends are easier due to decreased friction between your finger and the fretboard
- Strings respond to a lighter touch when fretting a note.
- BUT if to much pressure is applied the not goes out of tune.
Its something to get used to and it took me some time to finally decide to do this. But if you have been playing for a while, it should not be too big of a deal to adjust to.

Step 1 Gather Materials

Things you need
-Guitar- mine is an Epiphone Les Paul Special II which came in a guitar pack with an amp. Not the best guitar in the world. This is for practice before I maim my more expensive guitar.
- A round file-
- Various grits of sandpaper
- Masking tape- to protect the frets
- Some patience- I scalloped frets 17-22 and the whole project took me, at the most, 2 hours. Your results may vary.

Comments

[oklaoma]

rithchie blackmore and yngwie malmsteen have some scalloping guitar

[rocketkid]

Herman Li also. the guitarist from dragonforce? hehe awesomeness...

[gogeta126]

"Not the best guitar in the world" but a preety good les paul style if you dont have a lot of money. And you probably dont want to deface a real Gibson les paul right? :)

[abadfart]

hey i have a squire so i still consider this nice 

[JAZ97]

true but epihones les puals are just as good i mean a few things they cant master but there exaclty the same sound expt the epihone can have a higher sound while the real gibson can hvae a lower sound

[rocketkid]

not to mention they are usually a whole lot cheaper

[abadfart]

ya but you can change it up with different pickups  

[JAZ97]

thats true but you might as well get a custom guitar like that and replace it with the p90's etc (gibson parts for the guitar) and you get a gibson les paul exactly the same




kinda

[harley_rly]

not really, the wood the body is made out of contributes a lot to tone and sustain. Fixing a cheap guitar(thus made with cheap wood)up will improve it, but it wouldn't match an expensive one unless you replace everything, and after doing so you might as well get the more expensive one thats already made out of Alder or Mahogany.

[foxtrot4697]

true dat, i might be buying an epiphone les paul this christmas

[JAZ97]

yeah im getting a black beuty style kind

[foxtrot4697]

i like the vintage sunburst

[JAZ97]

that kol to

[Joanassie]

There's a spell-checker included in the commenting layout. I would recommend you use it if you don't have the time to check your spelling yourself, or if you have no time to spell words properly. The kind of talk you guys are using should only be used when you're sending tweets or being charged per character. Instructables has no character limit to comments, as far as I know, so there.

[JAZ97]

huh????????????????????????????????????????????

or is that to many question marks

[JAZ97]

now that is sick dude i build guitars and those are sure sellers

[m4573rk3yb04rd]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Scallop-Your-Guitar-Standard-Scallop-Frets-14-21/ this one is more detailed! Nice Instructable though!

[norsehorse]

Ok. I don't need the later, more detailed version after I've already completed the project.

[rimar2000]

Interesting. But, ¿why only a few frets at end of the mast?

[norsehorse]

I did it so I could play the highest notes a bit easier. I will probably end up doing a few more in the future.