At 02:48 PM 5/25/2018, John Holladay wrote:
>Bob,
>
>I'm not a Luthier, but I am a guitar player.   Unless your guitar is pretty
>old and has seen a lot of play,  then I'm not sure that raising the frets
>would be the best solution.   Unless the guitar has been played a lot over
>a long  time,  then the frets are probably not worn down that badly.   My
>first thought would be to get the guitar to a good guitar shop and see if
>the "action" on the guitar can be adjusted to make the guitar more
>"playable".  It's kind of hard to describe what the actin of a guitar is
>since they really aren't moving parts,  but it has to do with the height of
>the strings above the fretboard,  the angle of the neck and possibly the
>height of the bridge of the guitar.   All of these affect how easily the
>strings can be fretted and also the intonation of the guitar.  I certainly
>would look into this before going to the trouble to raise the frets.

  I have no idea when kind of guitar Bob has,
but I'll just mention that on some guitars the height of the bridge 
is adjustable
(often with little "turn screws).   These are more common on electric
(than on acoustic) guitars.

But I certainly agree with John.  It's very unlikely that the problem is
with the height of the frets (or that adjusting the frets would do anything
to address the problems)  And, in any case, as Bob asks in his message
this would be pretty precise surgery.  Not something that a neophyte
luthier should attempt.

Nichael.