Fret polishing. Dremel a good choice?

[John4021]

I have used a small block of "Brite Boy" on frets befor...after steel wooling them (as others have said with 0000) I used a very fine Brite Boy and they shine like new..
The again,I just recently had Lays Guitar down in Akron do a fret dress on my Anderson and what I though would be a re-fret,they did a dress and ploish...plays like butta now.
And Was fairly reasonaly price wise...$90 with new strings.

 

[Phrygian]

0000 steel wool.. painter's tape.. elbow grease.

+1

The stew mac fret guards look good as well, but I've always done tape.

 

[rupe]

Dremel will do the job but its complete overkill. 0000 steel wool as mentioned is all that is needed.

How long do you spend per fret to get that shine? I was never able to get a mirror like finish on my frets with steel wool. Maybe I wasn't using enough elbow grease?

Depends on the condition...never more than a few minutes per fret though.

 

[Sixstring]

If your going to be polishing the whole board this item looks pretty cool as well.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_su ... Masks.html

 

[Ayrton]

If your going to be polishing the whole board this item looks pretty cool as well.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_su ... Masks.html

Damn that is new, and exactly what I need. However $8 for a single use is a bit pricey...

Taping up a whole neck is pain, but I have done it so many times, I have gotten kinda quick with it now.

What Stew Mac needs to make is a steel one like the single fret, but the whole neck. Then you could just tape it down and go.

 

[5150GSX]

I use 000 steel wool, then 0000 steel wool, then sometimes if I have time I'll tape off the fretboard and use the dremel. I use the cloth wheel with some rouge polish on it and makes them look like mirrors.

Dremel works wonders but never put any sort of grinding wheel on it.

 

[dfrattaroli]

When I built the Egress (see http://www.dafguitars.com) I actually didn't use a Dremel. But I did later on my EBMM Petruccis just to polish the frets. For the guitar I built I taped off...

Then I used a sanding block (and a toy fire truck)

Crowning file...

Little baby-ass sand paper...

And got this..

 

[jkdsteve]

And got this..

Lovely job!

Wanna fix the frets on my N4?

 

[fredster]

I just got a guitar back from a tech and he had buffing wheel or something like that and my frets were like mirrors.

Where did you take it? I've been lookin' for a tech...