Mandolin Refret?

Have any of you detwelvulated a mandolin before? Once you've done a few
guitars, is there anything unexpectedly tricky on a mandolin refret job?

[Gary Morrison, TD 580.6]:
>Have any of you detwelvulated a mandolin before? Once you've done a
>few guitars, is there anything unexpectedly tricky on a mandolin refret
>job?

OK, well I didn't do the work myself, and it was "doubletwelvulated"
rather than "detwelvulated", but I did have seven frets added to a
mandolin so that I could play 24TET in first position (beyond first
position the frets would have been too close together for me to play).

The guy who did the work had two concerns:

1. He didn't want to damage the "binding" (I forget if that's the term
he used) on either side of the fret-board (the white stuff on both
sides of the fretboard in the photos below).

http://cjchapm.home.mindspring.com/Mandolin01.JPG
http://cjchapm.home.mindspring.com/Mandolin02.JPG

2. For some reason that is not clear to me, I think he was also worried
about cracking or breaking the wood in the fretboard.

What he ended up doing was filing off the tangs of the frets that he
added and gluing them on. They have held up thus far, but I do intend
to use someone more experienced at this sort of thing for my next
project. :-)

Cheers,
Christopher