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Frets are the cornerstone to a guitar that plays and sounds awesome. Wonky frets neuter fine woods and expensive electronics and hardware. Precision True Level is the only way.
True Level Frets: All frets the same height and parallel to the fretboard, and every fret matches the fretboard radius. This is Impossible with sanding beam and freehand files.
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Fret forensics provides the proof that a flat sanding beam does not true level uneven high and low frets from fret to fret and across each fret.
Real numbers real truth.
Eyeballing a freehand crowning file to form a perfect fret radius matching the fretboard radius for 22 frets is impossible. 19th century solutions in the 21st century are impractical.
Precision "No Measure" Fret Slot Saw
When replacing frets it is necessary to clean the slot and often times to deepen the slot for longer tang frets. But how do you know you are not cutting the slot too deep or shallow?
SixStringers makes it easy with six preset slot depth that cover all fret tangs.
The saw cut width is 0.0232", the perfect size compared rot 0.023" because sone tangs are in fact 0.0232" and you don't want to force a wider tang into a narrower slot.
3rd Party Resources
There a lot of things we do not make but you need to do the various jobs.
If you are new to working on guitars this list of 3rd Party Tools and Consumables will save you from the grave mistake of making assumptions.
And we've done the shopping for you, offering more than one choice to choose from. Not only will you know what to have on hand, you don't have to scour the Internet or worse, assume that brand names are the "It Tools" because all too often they are expensively not.
Knowing the right tool for the job
For example, you are looking to refret, you are thinking stainless steel, you need fret cutters, but not just any cutter is right for the job. Google the HRC (the hardness) of stainless steel frets, it is 42 - 45 HRC. This means that the cutters must be significantly harder. So when you shop cutters you want to see that the Seller specifies the HRC and that this must be higher than 60.
When a Seller does not state material specs it means the material is low quality, because no one selling quality is going to omit a high HRC rating. Commonsense. SixStringers has done the shopping for you, see out 3rd Party Resources.
Another example: We are looking for real tools, not eye candy. Some Sellers anodize their tools in pretty lipstick on pig colors and then jack up the price 4x and more, and for what, color that serves zero utility of the tool.
Yet another example, notched straight edges. You want this to stand up on its own on the fretboard. A Sculpted or triangular shape cannot do that. Forget fancy shapes costing 4x and more money. We refer youy to a made in USA Seller in our 3rd Party Resources.
We do not have any affiliation with 3rd Parties:
We have no relationships with any 3rd Party Seller we suggest. Our goal is simple, help our customers find the right tools for the job and at the best prices we have found from Sellers that are in good standing, have high positive ratings and reviews.
What we know is that a lot of tools sold as Luthier (guitar) tools are standard tools that are private labelled, the Sellers do not make. these tools they just brand them and multiply the price many times over because now that standard tool is miraculously worth so much more when you say it is for guitars.
And finally, we assume no responsibility or accountability for any 3rd Party Seller we suggest. If ever there is an issue, (none so far) that is between the buyer and that seller, SixStringers is not involved. If a Seller we suggest makes a wrong move, let us know, we will immediately delete them from our suggested 3rd Party suggestions. (exception, we will not delete SM and other so called competitors, we already know they are over priced and often times their quality is grossly overstated. We include them in 3rd Party so you may compare, not so much suggesting you buy from them.)
Guitars Picks: You'll know you picked right.
Carbon Fiber infused Deep Voice guitar picks
If you prefer a brighter lighter tone with big volume...
These brighter lighter tone high volume picks are made from non-toxic engineering polymer for extended play life compared to the commodity plastics used by popular makers.
Features the same grip and built-in flex control as our Carbon Fiber lineup.
Don't let the thin gauges fool you, these aren't flappies that chase your strings.
Four Play, Four Tone
Choose the style and tone on the fly.
Opens new doors of creativity.
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