by eatyourguitar » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:26 am
if you cut a new nut you can lower the action a tiny bit. you can alternatively dress the frets but you will also flatten them slightly. cheaper than putting a new nut. a recrown for your new flat spots after dressing is cost prohibitive. the nut is kinda cost prohibitive also. if you were a guitar repair ninja you could file down the problem spots after taking lots of super accurate measurements using special tools. you pretty much already know where the high spots are now you just gotta take those measurements so you can be %100 sure where and how much you need to grind the frets down. sometimes on those pawn shop epi's you have frets lifting up in which case you use a fret hammer to hammer them back down until they are seated again. no guarantee your hammering will be permanent though.