Apparently with my Gibson Les Paul craze back again, I’ve been dabbling into the specs of the High Performance series. The specs list the fretwire as “Low”, without any further info on the actual dimensions. Also, other models are listed as having “Medium Jumbo” fretwire. What do they mean?
Fortunately Gibson Customer Service kindly answered my emails, and these are the measures:
| Fretwire | Height | Width |
|---|---|---|
| Medium Jumbo | .055" | .090" |
| Low | .045" | .086" |
This information, paired with this fretwire chart and our JP chart, gives us a good comparison with commonly known fret sizes:
| Fretwire | Height | Width | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunlop | 6000 | .058" | .118" |
| 6100 (Ibanez JPM) | .055" | .110" | |
| 6105 (Ibanez JEM) | .055" | .090" | |
| 6140 (Ibanez Universe) | .039" | .106" | |
| EBMM | medium jumbo (Majesty) | .051" | .108" |
| high wide (JP6) | .047" | .104" | |
| Suhr | jumbo | .057" | .110" |
| medium | .055" | .090" | |
| heavy | .051" | .108" | |
I just can’t understand, however, why would they use vintage frets in such a modern guitar.
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