Although Robin Hood might have appreciated this style of fret ends players, especially better players won't.
This is a Dave Collins photo of a G*bson f*ctory fret job on a G*bson acoustic and our forensic analysis indicates that this is original fret work, so does the owner..... You can even see black paint over spray on the sides of the highly.... polished.... cough, cough, sniff, sniff fret ends... Me, I'm not opinionated....
It was in because one of the sides with no side reinforcement, tapes, etc. split over a greater than 1 foot long area. The other side had already split and had already been repaired by someone else in the past. Nothing like consistency....
Interestingly the degree of radical freternarian malpractice is mitigated as the frets approached the body joint likely because the body was in the way of the poor technique and or the tool used to do this.
Anyway don't do this, please.
NOTE: Hesh is not picking on G*bson again.... I post interesting things that we encounter and this often means lousy workmanship. It's not my fault that I see far more of it on G*bsons..... For the Record my favorite guitars are Kalamazoo G*bsons. We are always harder on the ones that we love.....
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