Rikamortis
Active Member
Same thing that causes fret sprout and not enough glue in the frets but when the wood shrinks and expands the frets get loose and they pop up You have to reglue them or just knock them back downI know about humidity causing a change in action due to the wood shrinking and expanding when the humidity levels change with the seasons. I know that it can also cause fret sprout, but what about frets popping up? I've never had this issue until I moved to TN and now almost every single one of my guitars have raised frets and I can't keep them down. I tap them back down and they last a couple of days before they raise back up again. It's always the same fret (or frets) that keep popping up over and over. Even my Traditional that I JUST GOT already has 2 or 3 raised frets.
I'm at a loss, keeping them in a case full time doesn't seem to make any difference. Like I said, never had this issue until I moved to TN. I'm from Florida where the humidity is like a tropical rain forest most of the year and then it gets significantly drier in the winter and I didn't have this issue down there.
It's so frustrating!
I just bought my first Thermometer with humidity sensor just to see what the humidity is (or if it fluctuates) in my apartment daily. It's all I can think of.