With FretMaestro anyone can do their own fret work. N o more paying a shop, no more horror stories.

No experience or skills required. Everything you need to confidently & masterfully level, radius, & crown your own frets.
Cost less than traditional fret tools - AND - Cost a lot less than paying a shop.
Fastest, Simplest, Finest Precision and Symmetry, Lowest Cost. Nothing, absolutely nothing else compares.

FOOLPROOF!!!

Level, Radius and Crown a fret all at the same time one fret at a time.
No need to flatten the neck. 20 frets as fast as 15 minutes.
Precision in the palm of your hand that only a CNC fret machine can match.
No experience required - Intuitive learning curve is just a few minutes.
American made in Gardnerville, Nevada, USA.

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FretMaestro benefits and advantages:

  • Makes every fret an exact clone of the other which makes it possible for the optimized set up for the best intonation & play.
  • Absolute minimal fret material removed means you can level the same frets several or more times Vs once the old school way. Stretch out the years before the frets need replacing.
  • Much faster than the old school way.
  • No need to flatten the neck means no need to mess with the truss rod.
  • Built-in safety to protect the fretboard from file nicks and gouges.
  • Cost much less than a collection of the cheaper priced old school fret leveling and repair tools.
  • Cost much less than a repair shop will charge when all is said and done.

FOOLPROOF - NO EXPERIENCE OR SKILLS REQUIRED.
Intuitive learning curve just a few minutes.

FretMaestro Videos
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Find out your Fretboard Radius

Foolproof: Do it yourself far better than any repair shop can using old school tools and rules!

Part 1: Fixing really bad frets on a lovely acoustic.

Part 2: Before and After:

Part 3: Nitty Gritty:

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Find out your Fretboard Radius

FretMaestro Singles: What you get:
(1) Radius FretMaestro Body
(1) radius 150 grit roughing in diamond file insert
(1) radius 300 grit finishing diamond file insert
(1) Maestro Fret Height Gauge

Select your fretboard radius...

Prime 4 (4 Maestro Set)
Four Radiuses (1) each: 7.25" + 9.5" + 12" + 16"

Pro 11 (11 Maestro Set - All radiuses 1 each)
7.25" + 8.5" + 9.5" + 10" + 11.5" + 12" +14" + 15" + 16" + 17" + 20"

FretMaestro PLUS: What you get:
(1) Radius FretMaestro Body
(1) radius 150 grit roughing in diamond file insert
(1) radius 300 grit finishing diamond file insert
(1) radius 240 grit Crowning diamond file insert
(1) Maestro Fret Height Gauge

Select your fretboard radius...

Prime 4 PLUS: What you get:
(4) Radius FretMaestro Body
(4) radius 150 grit roughing in diamond file insert
(4) radius 300 grit finishing diamond file insert
(4) radius 240 grit Crowning diamond file insert
(1) Maestro Fret Height Gauge

Select Prime 4
7.25" + 9.5" + 12" + 16"

Pro 11 PLUS: What you get:
(11) Radius FretMaestro Body
(11) radius 150 grit roughing in diamond file insert
(11) radius 300 grit finishing diamond file insert
(11) radius 240 grit Crowning diamond file insert
(2) Maestro Fret Height Gauge

Select Pro 11
7.25" + 8.5" + 9.5" + 10" + 11.5" + 12" +14" + 15" + 16" + 17" + 20"

Find out your Fretboard Radius
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Maestro Double Crown:
(1) radius 300 grit diamond Crown file.
Double sided stand alone file for tall and wide, short and narrow frets.

Find out your Fretboard Radius
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There are many YouTube videos on Fret Leveling and repair using old school tools and rules. They all recommend you do not try this at home. This is because using old school flat and straight tools to shape curved frets takes a great deal of practice and saintly patience to become even so-so good at it.

They all use flat sanding beams that bulldoze the frets, and straight files and free hand guess work to reshape the fret length radius to sort of match the fretboard radius, and then sort of reshape the fret crowns.

It takes a very long tedious day for a skilled fret technician and every step chews up more fret material. And, one little slip of the file results in an ugly nick in the fretboard.
AND...
Old School results are frets that are not symmetrical, not consistent height, making it impossible to fully optimize the set up.

Maestro your Frets:
Safely and confidently precision Level, Radius, and Crown your own frets to perfection.
No experience or skills required.
Cost a lot less than buying old school tools or paying a shop for their guess work freehand ways that devour your frets into an asymmetrical mishmash.

Diamond File Care

Maintaining Diamond Files

Fret material will not chip diamond grit.
That said, fret material is soft, so it will clog a file if the file is pressed to a fret.

Proper use is to let the weight of the file do the work without pressing down.

Clog Preventative trick: Dry Silicon Spray treat the file.

Clean the file: Use a Belt sander Eraser. Do not jam the eraser into the file, use it lightly so it can grab the filings instead of pressing them into the diamond.

Clean the file using a soft and very fine brass bristle; this is especially effective if the file has been dry silicon treated.

Best practice: Treat the file with dry silicon, a light application, not heavy... and use the belt sander eraser as you work, giving the file an occasional erase.

If a file becomes completely clogged... we offer replacement files at a very fair price for customers verified for having purchased from us the FretMaestro that matches the replacement file you wish to order.

Silicon spray, brass bristles, and erasers are readily available online or at hardware/tool/home improvement stores.

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