I opted to use my phone a friend lifeline for the frets in the Vangaurd neck. Kevin at Coyle’s Richboro Music does some cool stuff. One of those is tossing my neck into his refretinator machine.

He shared an update on Instagram, check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cha8qlSuYGe/

The frets are stainless steel and jumbo-ish size. I have stainless frets in another guitar and I’m never going back. Bending is sooo smooth and they stay clean longer. I hear they last a bujillion years too.

I’m super happy with the work he did, and highly recommend them to anyone looks for fret job. I think he has a mail order service on his reverb page where you can mail a neck and he will do the work and send it back.

There are a few more small jobs to do on the neck and then it’s ready to go.

• Apply a new logo to the headstock
• Clear coat the headstock face, wet sand, and polish.
• Make a new truss rod cover (this is gonna be cool)
• Put satin finish on the back of the neck
• Install tuning machines.