Atrocious treatment of the frets and fretboard. When you run such a coarse grit sanding pad over the board, you're missing the area next to the fret, leaving a different texture and a visual difference. also a used 180 grit pad is nowhere near fine enough for a finished fret job.
Thanks for your input. The finish pad is NOT a used 180. Flexible abrasives are different than sandpaper. And not all sandpaper is equivalent effective coarseness even if they read the same number grit. When blending the final fret crowning and moving to polishing, 180 Norton flexible abrasive is effective and not at all "atrocious". My finishing grit is at least 1000 equivalent but sometimes I'll go higher, although there's really not any effective difference finishing at 1000 vs 2000. Thanks for tuning in!!
Atrocious treatment of the frets and fretboard.
When you run such a coarse grit sanding pad over the board, you're missing the area next to the fret, leaving a different texture and a visual difference.
also a used 180 grit pad is nowhere near fine enough for a finished fret job.
Thanks for your input. The finish pad is NOT a used 180. Flexible abrasives are different than sandpaper. And not all sandpaper is equivalent effective coarseness even if they read the same number grit. When blending the final fret crowning and moving to polishing, 180 Norton flexible abrasive is effective and not at all "atrocious". My finishing grit is at least 1000 equivalent but sometimes I'll go higher, although there's really not any effective difference finishing at 1000 vs 2000. Thanks for tuning in!!