How To Level, Crown and Dress Frets (Easy DIY Fret Job)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I show you how to level, crown and dress frets on a guitar using basic tools and methods. Every guitar will need a fret job at a certain time in it's life. It seems intimidating at first but doing a fret level, crown and dress is actually quite easy.
00:00 Introduction
0:15 Tools You Will Need
4:26 Straighten Guitar Neck
5:42 Masking Fretboard and Neck
6:14 Checking Frets with Fret Rocker
6:28 Marking Frets with Marker
6:45 Sanding Frets with Leveling Block
7:29 Sanding Frets 15 and Above
7:47 Crowning Frets with Crowning File
8:48 Checking Frets with Rocker
9:04 Rounding Over Fret Ends
9:30 Steel Wooling & Finish Sanding Frets
10:04 Polishing Frets
10:30 Wipe Down and Unmask Fretboard
10:47 Showing Finished Frets
11:12 Outro
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tip for the fret fall off if you have a large levelling beam - 16 inches for example - (credit - saw this on crimson guitar channel) - put a few layers of masking tape on two thirds of the beam.
This will protect the frets you don't want to have fall off from getting lower, whilst making the beam slightly angled so that it hits the frets you do want to have fall off :)
Tape sides first then frets. Makes it easier to pull off tape.
Great video. Thanks man.
This was very helpful, thank-you for taking the time to post it! And thank-you for providing the details of the tools and materials that you used as many other videos just gloss over this.
Great helpful tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks !
Excellent work thank you !
Thank you for a very informative and helpful video!
Excellent video. Straight to the point and very informative.
Grande maestro
perfect for the MIECOO 9PCS Guitar Luthier Repair Tool Kit I just got on Amazon
VERY VERY NICE WORK, and, MOST CORRECT STEPS FOR RE-LEVELING, and of course, POLISHING FRETS -TO FINISHED GRADE. THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH! GREAT JOB !
Hey man. Nice job! This video gives me the confidence to try this on my own. I have a neck I can practice on for my first go at it. This was very helpful. Thank you. Subscribed!
Thank you :) it's definitely daunting the first time but once you do it, it's actually pretty easy and as long as you're careful, nothing should go wrong. Let me know how you go with it :)
@@morganoguitars2213 Will do brother. Thank you!
Great video! A couple of things I do differently: 1) I make three shims, exactly the same thickness (wood, plastic, doesn't matter) and place them on the ends and middle of the fretboard, then lay my straight edge on top. As long as it touches all three equally, that's as straight as anyone's going to get that neck. 2) I use a small triangular ("three-square") file for both crowning the frets and tidying their ends, but it has had its sharp corners ground down slightly, so the faces still work but there's less chance of damaging the wood. When crowning, it's important to leave the thinnest line of sharpie along each fret.
Great tips 👍
Good stuff. Just susbscribed
Amazing tutorial mate! I have a Fender strat but the nickel frets have been worn out causing fret buzz in some areas. I'll be using this video as a reference to level my frets! Thanks a ton!
Hi Rishee, thank you. I hope it was helpful and hopefully your fret job goes well :)
Got the terms back bow (and upbow, or bow) reversed there.
Thank you for the simple to follow video! I will be using. it as a guide to do some fret work. What kind of polishing gel did you use?
A few things that I have learnt that may (or may not) be helpful 1) leveling the neck off the "wood" is not always the best (using a notched level) as the wood of the neck is not always true. This applies also to individual fret "leveling" tools that rely (rest on) the neck wood to be perfect - you should avoid such tools. A Gibson SG that I just did was substantially different leveling off the wood vs leveling off the frets ( understanding that leveling off the frets, if they are not yet true, you must allow for some variation). 2) I never use fret rockers, if you want low action (mine leave with almost zero relief, low E at 1.00 mm and high E at 0.75mm, with the action up a bit from that if the guitar player is more heavy handed ) a fret rocker is a very crude tool. I will level the neck from the wood and than check level on the frets, and if there is a difference go with the frets being level. 3) I assure the neck is true, allowing time for the wood to move and settle ( typically overnight if the relief adjustment is significant) - then I will tape it down, felt mark all frets and do a very light pass over everything - not enough that recrowning is required, but enough to "read" the neck and tell you if it needs a full level. This has proven very useful. 4) I always create a fall off at the frets on the "heal" of the neck - the strings vibration radius is the greatest here, and the truss rod adjustment has no impact at this point in the neck. There is much more, but just some thoughts is all. (:~>
Do you have a video that explains this?
@@marcosreal11 - Marco - is there something further than the explanation (specifically) that I can help you with ? Best Regards... (:~>
Would you make any adjustments to the nut after the level of your frets have changed?
What kind of creme are you using when polishing?
On the fret leveling beam, what grit did you use to level the frets? Also can you post a link to the fret leveling kit
at 1:27 he says mostly 400 grit
no sense in just leveling something that doesn't necessarily need leveling, the fret rocker has a purpose
Sad that someone tried to ruin this in other ways very fine video, by playing disturbing guitar close to your microphone, so that people with english as our second language, couldnt concentrate on the information of your speech.