Here a couple of photos of the frets how they were before - not much left....


Removing frets using a soldering iron to heat frets before pulling them out.

Some gluey bits coming out of the fret slots...

All frets out, adjusting the truss rod so that the neck is perfectly straigh...

New frets in. The fret tang nipper tool from Stewmac is a 'must have' for necks with binding. SO much easier and faster!

Fret ends done, ready for leveling...

Frets leveled, crowned and polished. Fretboard oiled.

I wasn't happy with the plastic saddles so decided to cut some bone saddles and lower the saddles as the same time by about 1 mm. Here a photo of the four plastic saddles and the bone one still in one piece.

Continued in next post...