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Detailed Fret Leveling, Radius, and Crown.
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2024
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OLD Vs NEW: Disruptive Innovations anger a lot of people:
Leveling frets on a guitar has been done the same way using the same tools for a hundred plus years. Those old school tools were borrowed from woodworking; flat sanding beam, straight flat files, and a lot of skilled guesswork, but Guesswork all the same.
With the introduction of CNC machines for guitars, a company made a $250,000 fret leveling machine. The machine’s services are available for a hefty price, and often times add shipping to and from. Guitar techs and luthiers angrily scoffed at this disruptive innovation, loudly and persistently naysaying it, but over time people learned to ignore them, because after all, the CNC machine works better than any old school tools and rules, and so it has steadily gained wider and wider acceptance. The naysayers knew very well that the CNC machine was superior to the old school tools and rules, but their naysaying agenda was to protect their livelihood, they did not want to lose customers/income.
NOW… there is FretMaestro, CNC precision in the palm of your hand making it real for everyone to masterfully precision level their own frets in the comfort of their living room.
And now again, the techs and luthiers are on the attack, relentlessly naysaying FretMaestro because this time the threat is the total game changing disruptive innovation making precision fret leveling super affordable and super easy for anyone and everyone; there is no reason to pay a shop, not for old school, and not for CNC.
FretMaestro Made in the USA - the totally disruptive Fret leveling System.
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When you buy the fret leveler do you need the 300grit and the 150grit?
We now only sell full pro kit with 3 files each... 150 grit workhorse for level, 240 grit V file for crown narrowing, does not take off tops of fret, and 300 grit to finish.
Previously we gave customer a choice of files, and most of them came back for the full set of files.
Also, really you do need all three to do the best professional best ever results you have ever seen on fret leveling.
Might as well do it right the first time.
No the CNC fret machine or plek, machines a profile into the frets you can adjust this profile to suit different playing styles, people that bend the strings alot might want to have a flatter radius on the high frets, you can also do this by hand. With a littel skill and right tools this is not a big deal.
You can also choose to have a flatter radius using FretMaestro, for example, use a 16" radius instead of fretboard 12", and presto, perfect 16" radius frets. But try it by guessing with a simple hand file and you will most likely get asymmetrical frets.
does the brass bass on the indicator have a matching radius.
No... there are so many radius sizes on FretBoards... when measuring fret height line up along the outer edge, it settles. And this applies across the fretboard width except at the apex of the radius where at center it will certainly rock left or right. So file down the to center legs and it will not rock.
a comment i left for nautilus guitars:
so i level my finger board first ... ok, no problem.
i would rather have more remaining fret height in the end, and not have to look for the flat along the top of each fret with a lope.
i can think of leveling the finger board as the "set-up" and doing the fret job with the fret maestro as "production work"
Yes, that guy, James Warner, decided to create Spooky Knowledge by calling fall off and fall away Coplanarity.
He has never spoken with me, nor has he ever used Fret Maestro, he is not a customer.
But the techs and luthiers make about 70% of their income from fret work at $300-$400 a pop, so when the rest of us can at long last do our own frets, and get better results doing so, well... you can see their collective reaction. They will have a very tough time making ends meets without fret leveling work. Eventually this will come to pass, everyone will use FretMaesto at home instead of paying a shop.
BTW... very few guitars these days have wonky fretboards and/or necks. They are made with CNC machines starting in 1987, and before that, industrial shapers going back to 1944. If a fretbaord or neck is wonky, that's not fret level work.
Naysayers are always talking about wonky necks and fretboards as if that is fret leveling... it is a deliberate misdirection and deception, or they simply are clueless.
And they harp about necks that are not flat and straight and say nothing about the fact that you cannot use a sanding beam on a neck that is not flat and straight. It's double talk.
How do necks and fretboards go bad? Three reasons, too dry, too humid, or crimping the truss rod by tightening it under string tension.
Finger wear on old guitars is not an issue since it will be more than .125" away from the fret itself, the strings come off the fret at an angle. So with FretMaestro having only .125" on either side of a fret, it will not be influenced by finger wear, and even if for some strange reason there is wear right next to the fret, the radius of the Maestro will bridge over and across that, so again, no influence to take away from achieving perfect symmetrical radius of the fret and the height and the crown.
Our customers are not fooled by the naysayers deliberate misinformation or ignorance, whichever is the case.
We sell on Reverb, and we get consistent 5 star reviews. Anyone can check that out for themselves. Some of our customers have purchased the Pro 11 Set, all 11 radii of FretMaestro, $1,800... there is no way they give it 5 stars if they do not mean it, but they do becsause they do mean it. That pretty much sums it up.
@@SixStringers that's what I was thinking, once the old frets are out, adjust the truss rod to a strait edge on the neck ... IF any issues, use a sanding beam and radius block, until your strait edge shows no problems...good to go.
@@SixStringers no one pressing in frets without checking their fret tang kerfs, and amending them need be, either...it's only a little more work at the fingerboard level, and then smooth sailing, and your done.
If the frets need replacing, yes. But now we are talking about neck and fretboard work, not fret leveling.
FretMaesrtro is made to perfectly level, radius, and crown frets. We never claim it is for repairing necks/fretboards.
Total game changer, great video, Fretmeastro Steve.. thank you!
Thank you: There is more FretMaestro can do, will cover these in future videos. Anything one can do with a straight file can be done with far better precision using FretMaestro.
How do you address fret ends and/or sprout?
FretMaestro does not presently address Fret ends / sprout. But we have that in the works.
@@SixStringers Sounds good
Where did you get that brass fret height gauge from?
Amazon, it's called FretMax Digital Nut Slotting Gauge for Guitar... but oddly it does not work for the slots, or mine is missing that gauge tip. $69 Vs $122 at you know who.
No need, the end piece is flat brass fitting.
No need, it comes with flat brass fitting. This is also perfect for knowing the exact height of each fret, combined with toothless straight edge one can evaluate what to do with a wonky neck.
When will it be for sale on eBay ?
Never.
@@SixStringers that’s a shame
Does this work on bass guitar frets too ?
Yes, no problem.
Nice!
.0005" is equal to about 1/4 the thickness of a human hair!
I'd say that oughta work just fine!
Measured in real time... yes, and that guitar played decent with .004" variance, but not great. It really rings out now.
Thank you.