Guitar work shouldn't be mystery science.
Progress always begins with the audacity to challenge the status quo and the Specialists who adamantly enforce archaic tradition. To evolve, to gain the advantages of advances in technology one must go against the multitudes of Specialists who for their own selfish gains are dead set against any innovation that frees you from being their captive customer.
Traditional guitar tools for fret work have not changed since the 1800’s because no one has had the audacity to challenge traditional 19th century tools and methods of the wizard hat Specialists who benefit from these at the great expense of the rest of us.
19th Century Telegraph required Specialist trained in Morse Code. "What hath God wrought?" Then came the 20th Century and the telephone "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you", and the world forever changed, benefitting ordinary people and businesses. The telegraph Specialist begrudgingly had to learn a new job.
The next paradigm shift; cellular phones liberated us from landlines that shackled us to home and office. Nokia jubilantly reaped massive profits... until…
Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, and almost overnight everyone embraced the newfound freedom of phone calls, internet, email, texting, and a camera, a massive music library, the all-in-one cornucopia of communication, information, freedom, entertainment, and creative power. Tens of thousands of Nokia jobs were displaced and lost because instead of developing their own smart phone, Nokia, in complete denial of the new reality chose to holdfast to the status quo.
The makers and sellers of guitars tools depend on fret tools for 70% of their sales. Repair shops depend on 70% of their income coming from fret work. They are the Nokia of guitar tools, stubbornly holding onto the ad nauseam outdated tools and Specialists who enforce tradition with libel, slander, and defamation campaigns against progress because they depend on us remaining as their captive customers.
The barrier of these archaic 19th century tools is that they require dedicated practice and determination to develop the skills for adapting to fretwork that they were never designed nor intended for.
This is 2025, not 1825.
Guitar tools are the only tools that have not changed in 200 years… tune in to how bizarre that is; the whole world of tools has gone through multitudes of innovations and technological paradigm shifts in the last 200 years, and yet traditional guitar tool and repair Specialists have managed to keep a stranglehold to choke out progress, shackling the rest of us as captive customers to archaic 19th century tools and methods. They pontificate: “It ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Up to now they have shamelessly gotten away with it.
SixStringers 21st Century Guitar Tools are the disruptive innovative ultra precision DIY Novice Friendly anyone can use without prior experience tools that the jail keeper Specialist hate because now you can do it yourself at home infinitely better than they can ever dream of doing with their archaic tools and methods, and you’re not beholden to paying them anymore, nor are you having to put up with their self-righteous indignant condescending wizard hat antics when you tell them “Hey, you loused my guitar, fix it”, and they tell you “You don’t know what you are talking about, after all you came to me and paid me to do what you do not know how to do.”
Say “No!” to that ad nauseam affront. Give yourself permission to be free of their shackles because now you have the key, DIY Novice Friendly SixStringers 21st Century Guitar Tools.
FretMaestro: The only tool ever engineered that precision levels every fret the exact same height off the fretboard and form the perfect matching radius to the fretboard which is the only way frets can be level along their length and therefore the only way frets can be at all. And it also crowns the frets. Ultra precision level, radius, and crown at the same time. Don’t fret the level, maestro your frets with DIY Novice Friendly FretMaestro.
FretFixxer: The only ever precision engineered Spot Level Tool that levels and crowns a proud fret at the same time to within .0005" tolerance for guitars that have just a few buzzy high frets instead of needing a full-on level.
The other guys, Stew Mac Fret Kisser and Music Nomad’s U-file both destructively bulldoze the fret crown flat forcing you to have or to buy a crowning file that cost just about as much as their so-called spot level Kisser and U-File, effectively doubling the true cost to you. So instead of taking a step backwards ruining your fret crown with those half-baked tools based on 19th century thinking, join the 21st century with DIY Novice Friendly FretFixxer.
Maestro Saddle & Nut Sander: The only tool engineered that sands saddles and nuts to within .0005” ultra precision tolerance. True press fit axles and bearing wheels Vs the other guys’ eccentric bolts, sure grip clamp with textured rubber grip strips, the other guys don’t have, precision .0005” tolerance no measure accuracy the others are completely clueless about, no extra useless parts to pose as something they are not, no gimmicky instructions that are sure to get you in trouble.
SixStringers is all about ultra precision and DIY Novice Friendly easy to use simplicity, because when it comes to real tools, less is more.
SixStringers Precision Engineering is making the full line of essential ultra precision DIY Novice Friendly tools that anyone can use to perfect their frets, nut slots, saddles, lowest possible string action, and more often than not a setup that does not need neck relief because neck relief is not what the Traditionalist Specialist tell you, that “Oh, you must have neck relief to allow for the oval vibration of the strings”, that’s ad nauseam bull, they use neck relief to compensate for their shoddy fret work that then makes for shoddy nut slots that then makes for high string action that also needs neck relief to help overcome their shoddy fret work, because in the simplest terms, the hip to the knee bone to the ankle bone, get one of them wrong and you’re playing with a bad limp, get them all wrong and the play and sound of the guitar is painfully crippled.
SixStringers’ Customer Support: Your success is our success, and we are dead serious that we both succeed. We are always here for you, period. We look forward to customers asking questions because we truly enjoy helping you succeed, guiding you on a journey that at the other side you know how guitars really work, that you gain the knowledge that builds your confidence to do it yourself, and because you know that the right tools for the job are SixStringers 21st Century Disruptive Innovation Guitar Tools.
