Here we have 5 feet of Stainless Fretwire, more than enough for a complete refret of your electric or acoustic axe. It measures .047" tall by .104" wide.
I consider this the perfect all-around size - enough height to keep your fingertips/ fingernails from dragging on the wood, and enough width for smooth bends (without killing sustain or intonation).
Whether you're looking for smoother fretting and bending, or you're tired of wearing out your frets, these will solve the problem. Perfect for the gigging musician. Refret once, play damn near forever. As one of the industry's noted master luthiers Frank Ford has said:
"Stainless fretwire is great for bending your notes; the frets don't grab the strings and it feels like you're playing on ice."
I first started using stainless fretwire 5 years ago when one of my clients (a 4-5 night a week guitarist who's brutal on his equipment) came in for ANOTHER fret job. We couldn't get more than a year out of a fret job, usually with a few level, dress and polishes in between. The other problem is that a fingerboard can only handle so many re-frets before the slots just wear out. Needless to say,
He's been on the same set for years with barely any visible wear at all... it looks more like small highly polished areas where the strings have been riding. Great for him, not very profitable for me...
As you regularly play your guitar with nickel silver frets, the perfectly rounded fret crown needed to produce clear, sustaining notes and precise intonation begins to go away.
You probably don't realize how less-than-awesome your guitar has become... It can be such a gradual change that you don't realize how fuzzy the notes, intonation and sustain have gotten... This stuff maintains a precise crown forever (at least forever in guitar years).
This is the finest German made precision wire available. It measures .047" tall by .104" wide.
Before we ship it to you, it's
Custom radiused to perfectly fit your fingerboard at no charge. Yep, that's free!
Just let us know what radius your board is, or if you don't know, tell us the model of your guitar and we can probably help you figure it out. Don't buy into the "logic" of buying straight fretwire so you can bend it by hand (or buy/make a fretwire bender, lol).
The perfect radius is actually slightly more bend than your fingerboard - this helps to keep the fret ends from springing up. Just let us know which radius you prefer.
In my experience, all of the other stainless wire that I've tried (for some reason) has too narrow (.031-.032") a fret tang (the part that fits into the fret slot). So I spent some time researching and found that there's only one factory in Germany that makes wire with a decent size tang (.036-.038" including "barbs"). This is particularly useful on guitars that are being refretted, or have been refretted more than one time. This also helps because stainless wire is a bit stiffer and may tend to spring up if it doesn't have a snug fit in the slot.
I had to step up for a boatload of this stuff, so I'm offering the extra to you for cheap-cheap. Heck, Warmoth charges $25 for 5 feet, and theirs is the straight length, narrow tang stuff, so there ya go.
**Gibson players take note: Your "vintage" dunlop 6130 size low and fat frets, when NEW are the same size as worn out jumbo frets. They start out at only .036" tall, and once you level them a bit, you're down in the low .030's... add to that some wear and you've got a sluggish, hard to play guitar, with no room for future wear or fret leveling. The fretwire listed here is the perfect replacement for vintage Gibson frets, with just enough extra height to keep your fingertips from dragging on the board. This is one of the single best upgrades you can make on a Les Paul, SG, or 335. And we have it in either stainless or hard nickel silver.
Want to save over $5 on your purchase?
Shipping is FREE on your second length of wire! For 3-4 lengths, just add $1, for 5+ lengths, just add $2.
International shipping is only $10 for 1-3 lengths of wire, and it usually takes only 4-6 days to get to you.
**Combined Shipping**
We always give a combined shipping discount on multiple purchases!
So you will pay little or nothing above the shipping cost of the largest item.
For example, if you purchased a Precision Sanding Beam, an Ultimate Fret Hammer and a fret file, USPS Priority would look something like this:
Sanding beam $8.55, Hammer $2, fret file $0, fret guards $0. If it doesn't make the box bigger or (much) heavier, then we don't charge you for it.
For First Class International shipping, it would look something like this:
Sanding beam $15, Hammer $3, fret file $1, fret guards $0.
Purchase what you need and I can give you an exact quote.
Thanks,
Bernie /Guitar Tools, Frets n' Supplies Guru
Ready to re-fret your own guitar, or do any leveling and polishing? Protect your prized axe, save time, and make the job a lot easier with these nifty fingerboard guards pictured below.
They are made of durable .010" stainless steel, with a slot machined in the middle to barely allow the fret to peek through during all of the sanding and polishing processes, and if you're paying attention, you'll pick up on another pro fret leveling trick...
And these eliminate the need to mask off the entire fingerboard, where you run the risk of pulling the finish right off the neck. These have been one of my shop's biggest time savers!
Check out our other auction and get yourself a couple of these.
Free shipping on these with the purchase of one or more lengths of our fretwire! Just purchase them in our other auction and we'll combine the shipping with your fretwire.
We now offer all of the direct-from-the-workbench tools and supplies that we've developed and been using here in the shop for years... you'll get brand new, even more refined versions of course! See pics of just some of them below. Want perfectly level frets? One particularly cool item is the
Ultimate Precision Sanding Beam/Fret Leveler pictured above.
It is precision ground, then lapped in on a granite surface plate that measures to within .0001" (that's one ten-thousandth of an inch!), and it comes with both 100 & 240 grit premium Redline XL paper already included. Available in 16", and for you bass players, 24". It even comes with plastic end caps, so you don't damage any pickups or tuners by running into them.
**Insider secret: We fill ours with sand to give it extra weight. It makes short work of any fingerboard or fret leveling task
These tools give a huge bang for the buck, and blow anything else available out of the water.
This will fit fits Fender Strat Tele Telecaster Gibson SG Les Paul Ibanez Jackson Carvin PRS Paul Reed Smith RG Jem Kramer Rickenbacker Hamer Dean BC Rich Schecter Epiphone Tom Anderson Andersen studio sg de luxe 335 345 hummingbird stratocaster special danelectro carvin ernie ball
International shipping is $12 usd for 1-3 lengths of fretwire, and usually arrives in 4-6 days.
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