I've been playing this mandolin (Eastman 614) since last september, gigging pretty much 4-8 gigs a month. I probably play mandolin on 30-40% of the time during those gigs. I was a little surprised by the amount of fret wear already. Guess the smaller than guitar fretwire really gets beat up a lot faster. Only makes sense I guess but I was hoping to get more than a year or so out of 'em. I suppose the fret wire may not be exactly premium stuff but it seems to be wearing down pretty fast. I'm not having any issues at all with it at this point, just a little surprised at the wear when I changed strings this afternoon.
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