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    SELF-CARE AND FRETWORK

    May 07, 2021 6 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL JAMES ADAMS

    I’m not ashamed to admit that it’s been six whole years since my last serious fretwork. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, it’s just that I didn’t really want to do it after we moved to California all those years ago.

    For one, the cost of entry to a set of good fretting tools is about the price of a new American Fender guitar, and I just didn’t feel like spending the money. Secondly, working from home meant repairs often piled up in our living room, and fretting supplies just meant more space taken up and more dust and debris stubbornly floating around our apartment. Thirdly, I was worn out from years of hustling as a tech and I needed a break from it all. That’s self-care, baby!

    Once I started taking on repair jobs again, frets were still something that I wanted nothing to do with. But if

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