Hi,
Recently I took my Gibson Les Paul Classic to do a fret leveling. It was showing a slightly wear, nothing that I should be concerned about when playing, but I decided to do anyway due to aesthetics.
On this process, the luthier simply destroyed my frets. He reshaped some of the frets, probably because he broke some of the biding nibs (image attached).
The thing is now when I'm playing on the reshaped frets, I cannot do vibratos, pull off or even bends without missing the fret and sliding out of the fingerboard.
There's no way to play the guitar this way, and I'm wondering what I should do. I'm thinking on refreting it, but afraid that this could end in a worse scenario.
I want to keep the same feel of the guitar. I know I'm going to lose the nibs and I'm already working this idea on my mind.
The thing is that is very delicate to refret and I'm considering shipping my guitar to Gibson in Nashville to do so.
Do you guys have any idea on what is the original fretwire for this model and year?
I hear it is Jescar 55095. But Gibson Repair & Restoration department told me they use StewMac. Not sure if they changed the supplier recently or they always used StewMac.
I appreciate your help. I can tell taking my guitar for fret leveling was a huge mistake.
Best regards,
Marc Allen