Does anyone PREFER small frets?

[SJ318]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

All my guitars have the biggest frets possible.
I also file the wood between the frets flat so I basically have a flat fingerboard. Hard work, but that's just me.
I dislike the feel of wood, I bend a lot and with the fretboard flat and the exposed frets actually, in real use give me enough room not to hit wood that might be a little sticky, not dirty, just the wood. I then flatten out the middle of the center frets, as they are still curved enough to buzz on a highly bent note.
Once I flatten the center, I crown them nicely and use dark oil on the rosewood boards, and I am home free, tall wide frets where I can grab and push the string to hell and back, no sticky wood, no buzzes, and to you folks who don't like wide frets, well they last longer, cause it is a matter of physics that they have more mass to take down before they need a crowing tool again! My cost - "0" dollars.
SJB

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

Woah, blast from the past thread.

I still dislike small frets. It's possible to play with them, but they cause more tension in your fingers due to the required harder fretting pressure . . . so you develop bad technique. Not really my cup of tea. I'll probably be refretting all my guitars with SS jumbos in the future.

 

[MacBradley]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

For me, it´s easier to play faster with vintage frets, the fingerboard woods is closer to the string than with jumbo frets, so the response to my fingers is faster.
It´s a little bit harder to play some bends, but not too much for me.

Anyway, I can play with all kind of frets, really don´t care too much about it.
Easier to play fast with vintage frets, easier to play bends with jumbo.

This pretty much sums it up for me. I also don't usually bend more than a full step up and play a lot two two hand touch style tapping.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

I might have said it in the first half of this, but with small frets it becomes very important that I like the fretboard material. Paint on maple, specific feel of the rosewood in question, that sort of thing.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

For electrics no, but for acoustics I do like smaller frets

 

[omg81]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

The bigger the better. I grew up with Epiphone, Gibson and Framus, but once I got used to Jackson and Charvel, I can't stand those small frets anymore.

 

[Maggot]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

I like small frets. Quackier sound, easier to slide around the fretboard, better intonation if you get a bit overexcited. I've never had any problems fretting out on a well-set up guitar. If the frets are extremely tiny it can affect my vibrato, but that's if they're smaller than vintage Fender.

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

I like small frets on my acoustics. I have more of a 6105 on my electrics except for my Ibanez RG... they're definitely JUMBO. The jumbo just feels too big to me, and they throw off my accuracy for slides when I'm on the upper frets... it's like I'll come to a stop on the fret BEFORE the one I planned to stop on sometimes! Grrrr....

 

[MetalManiac]

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OMG i just got my neck in today, and it wasn't rosewood, probably Mahogany, possibly walnut- thats not a problem..but the problem is these tiny tiny vintage frets . The seller advertised the guitars as coming with medium jumbos. Unless he cuts me a uber -deal, I don't want the neck with these vintage frets. For me, Fender Medium jumbo modern frets are as small as I care to ever deal with..I mean, I could do 6150 ( vintage tall) , but ideally, I'll take the 6100's true jumbos for most of my guitars.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: Does anyone PREFER small frets?

I prefer small frets. They feel more comfortable to me.