Excellent vid... Just bought the frine kit over the weekend... It's been about a year since any of my guitars got a fret clean/polish. Great to see some other options other than the more ubiquitous music nomad. Cheers.
I went 3 years at one point between getting the frets polished on my gold Jazzmaster, brought it to my favorite tech in San Diego and couldn't believe how well it was playing so I said what did you do??? "You have to polish the frets ya fool" 😂😂😂
This is true! You should be a bit more mindful of it for sure. I'm in a really humid environment so I have to pay a bit more attention to neck relief and humidity in the room as well. It's the little things
The fret erasers. I never liked those. III have some but meh. I have the frine too, works great, especially as an in-between type polish to keep good frets looking great. Otherwise I use metal polish on a small Dremel polishing wheel. I put the frine metal guard down to protect the board and move my way through that way.
I've always had good success with the frine, but the fact I can not safely get rid of light pitting at home this is a no brainer for me. I just never felt comfortable with the fret erasers, but that groove really makes all the difference.
Honestly never polished frets. I've taken in guitars both new and used with tarnished or scratchy frets, and my solution is always to play with bends! 😹
Super fine steel wool works pretty well and is dirt cheap. Not so great for atainless ateel frets, but i dont have any guitars with them. I prefer the nickel steel frets.
I won't use steel wool anymore, I have seen mulitple pickups have been killed because of it and it doesn't take a ton to kill a pickup. That is the biggest reason why you've never seen me use it on this channel haha
@@AudiomoMusic I completely understand where you're coming from, and I agree. That said, I level, crown, and polish the frets on every guitar I buy. I also completely tape off the pickups before I start. I'm very careful. If it's a bolt on, I remove the neck. I refuse to pay someone 60 to 100 bucks and wait upwards of a week to do something I can do myself in an hour or two.
I use steel wool, I put tape over the pickups, and I use a small but powerful neodymium disc magnet to gather up the little shavings so they don't go in the pickups
@@pardeeplace4480 I do the tape thing too. It makes it so I don't have to take the neck off. I hadn't thought about the neo magnet. Maybe I should get one, just for that purpose.
Yeah man, because not only would this small company in Germany insist on /provide a script but I would read a script for a review of a $30 guitar product... totally how this whole thing works you got it all figured out.
Great demo. I use Zona 37-948 3M Wet/Dry Polishing Paper, Music Nomad fret guards and micro-mark soft back polishing sticks. Cheers!
Yes, that will all do the trick! Thanks for stopping by again
I still swear by the old fret guard and 3m paper. Like the video!
Thank you Mr. Torres Hair
@@AudiomoMusic HAHA I can't help it!
Thanks, this I appreciate!
You bet!
Excellent vid... Just bought the frine kit over the weekend... It's been about a year since any of my guitars got a fret clean/polish. Great to see some other options other than the more ubiquitous music nomad.
Cheers.
I went 3 years at one point between getting the frets polished on my gold Jazzmaster, brought it to my favorite tech in San Diego and couldn't believe how well it was playing so I said what did you do??? "You have to polish the frets ya fool" 😂😂😂
@@AudiomoMusic I live in the tropics, so I assume I'd need to be more careful with corrosion mostly than people in cooler climates.
Thanks Jim. 🎸🎸🎸
This is true! You should be a bit more mindful of it for sure. I'm in a really humid environment so I have to pay a bit more attention to neck relief and humidity in the room as well. It's the little things
This is super-helpful, thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff 🙌
Thank you 🙌
Thanks for the vid, Jim. Does the narrow-width painter's tape you're using have a particular name?
It's just stoch painters taape I got from home depot, just browse around that aisle and you'll find some narrow stuff like it
The fret erasers. I never liked those. III have some but meh. I have the frine too, works great, especially as an in-between type polish to keep good frets looking great. Otherwise I use metal polish on a small Dremel polishing wheel. I put the frine metal guard down to protect the board and move my way through that way.
I've always had good success with the frine, but the fact I can not safely get rid of light pitting at home this is a no brainer for me. I just never felt comfortable with the fret erasers, but that groove really makes all the difference.
@@AudiomoMusic Yeah, I agree, the groove is cool. The frine is purely a polish and definitely not a fix. Agreed.
Honestly never polished frets. I've taken in guitars both new and used with tarnished or scratchy frets, and my solution is always to play with bends! 😹
How can YOU of all people not polish your frets?!?!??!?!? hahahahaha
Micromesh works the best.
It's really effective for straight up polishing indeed
Super fine steel wool works pretty well and is dirt cheap. Not so great for atainless ateel frets, but i dont have any guitars with them. I prefer the nickel steel frets.
I won't use steel wool anymore, I have seen mulitple pickups have been killed because of it and it doesn't take a ton to kill a pickup. That is the biggest reason why you've never seen me use it on this channel haha
@@AudiomoMusic I completely understand where you're coming from, and I agree. That said, I level, crown, and polish the frets on every guitar I buy. I also completely tape off the pickups before I start. I'm very careful. If it's a bolt on, I remove the neck. I refuse to pay someone 60 to 100 bucks and wait upwards of a week to do something I can do myself in an hour or two.
I use steel wool, I put tape over the pickups, and I use a small but powerful neodymium disc magnet to gather up the little shavings so they don't go in the pickups
@@pardeeplace4480 I do the tape thing too. It makes it so I don't have to take the neck off. I hadn't thought about the neo magnet. Maybe I should get one, just for that purpose.
Old school way. A small piece of raw leather' fast' will last forever' no need to tape up fretboard.
You really followed that fret lazer script to a t.
Yeah man, because not only would this small company in Germany insist on /provide a script but I would read a script for a review of a $30 guitar product... totally how this whole thing works you got it all figured out.