How to Use Fall Away

[@garysorce4411]

I've told u this once before,but ill say it again. Thank you for all the videos you do. You build beutifull guitars,and I could tell you are a really good person besides.God bless you, and thank you once again.💜🎶🎸🙏

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

Gary you are a wonderful encouragement my friend! I hope to get back to putting out more videos, but I’ve had a lot of other things on my plate for a few months! But hearing from guys like you, gets me itching to make more videos! May you be greatly blessed!

[@Wythaneye]

18:06 That one guitar..... and now it's stuck in my head.

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

As in Jukebox hero?

[@TarynnElizabeth619]

@@letsbuildaguitar9230 because it was a one-way ticket, one way to go!

[@TarynnElizabeth619]

What a beauty.! 💜

[@jmoore8121]

awesome video!! is the process of fret leveling in general and adding fall off identical in a multiscale guitar?

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

Fret leveling pretty much a yes…not 100% sure on fret fall away when the frets are angled….on a multi scale neck…high up the fret board they aren’t angled a lot, so probably the same, but I haven’t done it.

[@jmoore8121]

@@letsbuildaguitar9230 thank you!!

[@nickfield9898]

Won’t you be taking more off the sides of the frets than the middle if using a radius block? It is the board that is 16”, not the top of the frets. Or, does it just not matter?

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

So think about it this way….if the wood is at a 16” radius and the fret is pressed in to lay flat against the wood…then what is the radius of the top of the fret? 16” correct?! And same where you use a 12” radius….so using a radius block allows me to sand the frets at the even radius which they are at.

[@sidgar1]

@@letsbuildaguitar9230 No, it's only still 16" radius at the bottom of the fret where it meets the fretboard. If the radius is 16" (imagine a 16" circle drawn) and you add in the height of the fret, it's now 16" plus the height of the fret, making it more like 16.125" at the top of the fret. The frets at the fall-away will have a slightly tigher arc than the other frets (16 vs 16.25ish). It's probably too small to notice, though, because an eighth of an inch radius difference from 16" is a very slight difference and when measured across a relatively small section of the arc (the width of the frets), it's almost negligible.

[@tinkerland-007]

That’s so Good!

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

Thank You much!

[@Wythaneye]

Are you at all concerned with the particles coming off of the frets while sanding? I've seen other people taping up their fretboard before sanding, and I'm wondering it it's necessary.

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

So it really kind of depends on where you are in the process….the neck and body are finished, so I’m not worried about particle residue in the finish. At this point I’m not taping up the fretboard because my sandpaper isn’t getting close to the finish. What you don’t see here is that when I crowned the frets right after this I did tape up the fretboard!

[@maxwellblakely7952]

Tape the fretboard… every single time…

[@curtrod]

​@@maxwellblakely7952sounds like the safest idea

[@curtrod]

it's not the particles, it's scuffing up the fretboard people are protecting with tape

[@hford386348]

Hello can you tell me where to get those emg pickups for the bridge and neck ?,but I don't want active, some comparable passives For good price. Thank you.

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

The EMGs are active….they’re amazing….you should give them a try! EMG ….just google EMG corporation and you can order online.

[@hford386348]

@@letsbuildaguitar9230 yes but have to put batteries..what are the model numbers for bridge and neck?

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

@@hford386348 81X and SAx. my batteries las months as long as you unplug when not playing. It's worth it!

[@IainHC1]

Just what v Gary said vv 🙂

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

Thanks!

[@LooseOrangeJuice]

I would like to see you give that guitar away to me. What a beaut.

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

Thanks! That one has been given away already….watch more videos and you can see the giveaway!

[@markgordoncreamer7279]

This whole thing was correcting the "Fall Away"!!!! And after the work he only played above the octave once and it was a bar octave E chord. Only once and nothing higher. So I can only think that his "repair" was a failure.

[@letsbuildaguitar9230]

This wasn’t a repair ….this was how to add Fret fall away to get low action not how to correct fret fall away…and I was able to get the action extremely low.