I finally finished the fret job.

Probably the worst fret job ever.
Couldn't get the rocking of the fret rocker totally gone so therefore, the worst fret job ever.

Its mostly from fret 15 and higher and only a very slight rocking so I figured I wasn't going to lower the frets any further.

I should have masked the fret board before doing the fret leveling so I got some permanant marker on the fret board so, consider myself kicked.

I masked off the fret board and then proceded to crown the frets with the fret crowing file you will find on the Pit Bull Guitars website.

At 1st I thought this was not working correctly the tutorials I had seen show the a thin sharoie line left in the centre of of the fret indicating that the fret is suffiently crowned.

When I did it, all the sharpie marks seemed to be gone and I was getting very frustrated.

I carried on and the frets were indeed coming out nice.

I then put 400 grit sand paper on a flexable hard sponge and ran that over the frets from fret 1 to 25 and then back again. Then did the same with 800 grit and 1200 to get the sanding marks out.

After searching for polishing compound, I eventually found some at Builders Express. A five pack. Used my "Dremel" type tool, mine is a Ryobi, and polished the frets to finish them off to a shine.

I think the polishing came out OK. Not sure if I did it right.

I have attached a few pics of the frets after polishing and removing the masking tape.

I need some advice on what to treat the fret board with. In South Africa, we don't access to dingotone, or Crimson fretboard restorer. We do have access to Woodoc, and std hardware store type stuff. There is also a local luthier site, blackbeardsden.com, where I can get lynsead oil from. https://www.blackbeardsden.com/colle...ts/linseed-oil

This apparently is used on fret boards???

Any advice??? Fellow South Africans done this before???

I was then looking at using some of the stains they have to try give the body a redish sun burst with it natural colour in the centre of the body. Their products are here, https://www.blackbeardsden.com/colle...iant=332471097

Then sealing it with TrueOil https://www.blackbeardsden.com/colle...l-stock-finish however there are other oils there that could work.

If some more experienced guys could point this newbie in the right direction, I would be most appreciative.


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