PabloPeppers Notched Straight Edge.

[Rabbitz]

I arrived home today, and low and behold there is a long thin package on the doorstep.

I ordered a notched straight edge from Pabs, now I've only had the thing a few minutes but I've already learned something:

I am really crap at judging a straight fretboard by eye!!!

Thanks Pabs, this thing is going to get a work-out.

(Oh and thanks for the custom picks, I'll try 'em out real soon).

[wokkaboy]

Hey Rabbitz, great bit of gear hey. I got one a while ago and makes neck fret levelling so much easier. It takes the guess work and error out of it.
The picks are pretty cool as well. Can really hit the strings hard

[DrNomis_44]

If I'm going to be doing some fret-levelling work on my Chibson SG, I'll have to get one of these for myself, along with a fret-levelling sander and a couple of fret crowning files too, oh, and some fine grit sandpaper as well, Stewmac sell a set of Fret erasers, they're like pencil erasers but contain various grades of abrasive grit:


http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools...t_Erasers.html

[dingobass]

K

If I'm going to be doing some fret-levelling work on my Chibson SG, I'll have to get one of these for myself, along with a fret-levelling sander and a couple of fret crowning files too, oh, and some fine grit sandpaper as well, Stewmac sell a set of Fret erasers, they're like pencil erasers but contain various grades of abrasive grit:


http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools...t_Erasers.html

Don't waste your cash on the fret erasers Doc..
I got a set and they are tedious to use... You get great results with wet and dry, steel wool then a buff up with a little bit of brasso on a soft cloth. Just make sure you mask the fretboard up! Brasso is a biarch to get off if it gets on the board

My old method to level frets is.
1. After setting the neck straight, masking and textaing the frets sand with radius beam/ block.
2. Crown fretz
3. Polish fretz with 1000 then 2000 w&d and buff with 0000steel wool then brasso

My new method is
1. As above
2. Break out the Ginex (see pic) crown with 400 then 1000.
3. Polish with felt wheel on dremel

[DrNomis_44]

K

Don't waste your cash on the fret erasers Doc..
I got a set and they are tedious to use... You get great results with wet and dry, steel wool then a buff up with a little bit of brasso on a soft cloth. Just make sure you mask the fretboard up! Brasso is a biarch to get off if it gets on the board

My old method to level frets is.
1. After setting the neck straight, masking and textaing the frets sand with radius beam/ block.
2. Crown fretz
3. Polish fretz with 1000 then 2000 w&d and buff with 0000steel wool then brasso

My new method is
1. As above
2. Break out the Ginex (see pic) crown with 400 then 1000.
3. Polish with felt wheel on dremel

Ah rightio, I think I know a few places in Darwin where I can buy either Brasso or Silvero, I seem to remember using Brasso to polish frets before, it does work quite well, might do that then.



One thing's for sure at least one of the frets on my Chibson SG does need leveling so that's going to be one of the next jobs to do on the guitar after replacing it's nut.

[wokkaboy]

Hey Doc I got 3 of the grades of fret erasers they are pretty good and polish/smooth the frets nicely. You will wear a groove in them but you have quite a few faces on the erasers to rotate and use another edge of them when they wear down

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc I got 3 of the grades of fret erasers they are pretty good and polish/smooth the frets nicely. You will wear a groove in them but you have quite a few faces on the erasers to rotate and use another edge of them when they wear down

I'm going to order a full set of them soon.

[jarrod]

Wifes nail polisher does the same thing at $4 with 4 grit sides. You guessed it "she ain't happy".

[andrewdosborne]

Wifes nail polisher does the same thing at $4 with 4 grit sides. You guessed it "she ain't happy".

What a great idea, to the make-up draw I go this evening..

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[wokkaboy]

haha Jrod you may have to replace it bro with a new one for wifey