got my 99's SSU rebuilt this week

My very first gretsch was a 99' 6120SSU, I bought it used in '01 I believe. I polished off all the gold from the hardware
to reveal the nickel plating beneath the cheap gold electroplate as taught to me by tvjones. Installed new filtertron classics, built a completely new harness from george l cabling, switchcraft jack and switch, cts pots and dumped the nashville bridge for the one that setzer actually uses, a gotoh vintage style ABR=1 wire bridge.

This guitar has served me faithfully and has been put through the ringer. Last summer I finally wore through the
frets even put divots in the actual fretboard squeezing so hard to keep chords in tune. I'd always wanted to
have tvjones give my guitar a fretjob like he does for Setzer, but he hadnt extra time and I couldnt afford him.
I got lucky this month and with the help of a friend at the fender custom shop I got the setzer style fretjob.
6105 dunlop stainless steel frets with a little off the top and nice bulbous ends, as setzer sez.. Man it's made the
guitar much brighter, and its given me another "Aha" moment in trying to decipher the whole crazy puzzle that
comes together as Setzer's magic tone. These are big frets, so big I put 10g strings back on instead of my usual
11g. I dont know how long that'll last but this fretboard feels like a shred metal guitar. Its FAST and touchy, those old thin horrid stock frets are not missed.

here is what it looked like with all the frets pulled out


and here it is after shiny goodness is finished

Wow! That's awesome!

nice looking work.

I was shocked to see the fret wear on my tele. I got it in 12/03 and by 05-06 there was enough wear where divots were starting to form.

My Spectra Sonic is holding up pretty well. Though skinny frets aren't fun, or what Fender calls "Medium".

Oh man you should put a NSFW heading over that first picture. Naked wood man.

That awesome! I cant wait to get that done but I got a ways. The frets got grooves but not making a diff in the playing yet. Those are some pretty big frets