How To Polish Your Frets (Part 1) - Guitar Maintenance Lesson
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- How To Polish Your Frets (Part 1) - Guitar Maintenance Lesson
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Polished frets not only look great, they feel it too. This is something you will only fully appreciate when you pick up the guitar to play it. Bends will be easier and overall you'll get far more enjoyment playing your instrument. As with all the maintenance we are doing, this can be done every time you change your strings.
There are two tools you will need to properly polish your frets.
1. Fret Guard
The fret guard is there to protect the wood on the neck from getting tarnished or scratched by the micro mesh papers. This is a preferable choice at this level to taping up every single fret as this is far more hassle and a pain to do regularly. These are available at any luthier supply stores.
2. Micro Mesh Papers
These are essentially very fine sanding papers. Exactly how fine they are, is measured by their grit rating. The higher the number, the more fine the paper. Standard sandpaper would typically be around 120 grit, whereas these papers go up to around 12000 grit! You should start with 1500 grit, then, as a good guide, work your way through 2400, 3600, 8000 and finally 12000. The 1500 will even up the frets and give them a nice shine. As you go finer and finer, you start to seriously polish the frets getting them into perfect condition.
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This should have been called "talking about polishing your frets "
3000 is as high as you would ever need for metal, 3000 will give a mirror polish. I normally go from 400 -800 depending on how they are to begin with. Then 1200, 2000,3000.
Please stop interrupting!!!!
Totally agree! The interviewer like more to hear his own voice.
Its not live
Flitz polish is the best I've found. A couple wipes and they are smooth and pretty.
Very informative. Ordered some micro mesh today. Hopefully i can bring my dull frets to life!
These videos are great guys. Just got a new guitar and your videos have instilled some much needed confidence when making adjustments, cleaning etc.
Hi Robert! Cool! Very glad you like them and they've helped you improve your guitar by yourself! That's definitely the aim :) :)
Your Guitar Academy it's definitely helped! I've played for the best part of 20 years and never had the guts to setup my guitar until seeing those videos. Keep it up guys!
"to grown men talk about nothing for 7 minutes"
Well planned video fellas!
Thanks Matthew!
Why not making the same videos WITHOUT the constant “okey, cool, fair enough, yep, great, yeah, I see, cool, yep, okey, great, cool, yeah, great, yeah,...” just let the fine gentleman talk!
Exactly! Probably a rookie that hasn't learned how silence from the interviewer makes a better interview.
Absolutely!
I like to keep my neck looking and feeling clean so that tip for people like who polish their frets on the regular really work for me. I hate the idea of making my frets play uneven on my new yamaha acoustic. to counteract this, I would use the heaviest grit on the last fret of the guitar. than work my way back to the first fret. the reason why is because guitars straight from the factory have a bit of fall away after the 12 fret to make playing to higher frets easier. so I'd use the same pad in the same area and only wipe my frets a certain number of times. since I'm doing most of the work with the first grit, I'd start out with 12 swipes between grits 1500 and 2400. than 10 swipes with grits 3200 - 4000, and than finally 8 swipes with grits 6000 to 12000. don't forget to tape of your fretboard so that you don't scratch the wood. I learned that one while working on a cheapo strat.
Great tips!
Didn’t show any work...this is spinal tap?😁
Hi Santiago - This video is part of a course of videos that you can either find here on CZcams via the playlist or on our site: www.yourguitaracademy.com/courses/fretboard-maintenance Many thanks :)
Yep yep sure I see I see ok so so so so um um yup ok yea ok I see I see sure ok yup I see ok
Oh Richard, you're starting to sound like the guy in the video
Chemistry all over... Australia.
Wayyy too much talk
Hey Yunn, yes they do love a good chat! This video is part of a wider series of videos, where you may find a little less chat and more action: www.yourguitaracademy.com/courses/james-collins/lessons/fretboard-maintenance
We don’t need constant clarification from you, buddy. These videos would be so much more smooth with just the guitar tech! Still, decent.
"how to polish guitar frets" spends the entire 7-minute video NOT polishing the guitar frets
Exactly, what a complete waste of time. Maybe title it, "How to prepare for a fret polish." Maybe he could have got to it if the interviewer would have stopped asking knuckleheaded questions.
I skimmed this whole video and saw nothing. Thanks for yammering
If I can say anything nice, don’t say anything.....sorry!
Theres absolutely no reason to work up to even close to 12,000 grit - unnecessary. You'll hit a mirror finish long before that point.
LOT OF FUCKING RAMBLIMG NOT A LOT OF DEMONSTRATING
3/4 of the way through the video and you guys are still talking what a waste of time mates!
Too much talking
Ruined the experience by the interviewer (bloke) interrupting ; goddamn frustrating.
Pointless video with zero value.
Yawnnnnnn