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Refret Glues
Hey guys! Im getting back fo refrets after a 5-6 year hiatus.. Im buying the supplies and wanted to know what are you using to glue frets? I used to work without (just pressed) or with Ca on some jobs but ive seen fish glue is kind of the new standard for many looths… What do you use? Pros/cons? Searching I found out the only ones selling fish glue are LMI (soon to bee gone), stewmac and Lee Valley.. The lee valley bottles are cheaper and bigger than the others including the shipping to the US. (Pd yeah im in Venezuela I have to get all my supplies on the US)
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I am very low on the experience scale here but I did use fish glue on a few guitars that ended up having frets move later on. Partly due to the slots being a little sloppy but I read that Fish glue is (maybe particularly) sensitive to heat. I am going to go back to CA glue.
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Any animal glue shrinks; it shrinks like crazy and if I understand correctly that’s one thing makes it so strong as a wood glue. But it’s terrible at gap filling which is pretty important when fretting. Unless your frets are fit perfectly, in which case glue isn’t really all that necessary. CA doesn’t shrink at all so it fills gaps very well.
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