Refret

Refretting your guitar isn't something you would need to do very often, but if you play often and play hard, the frets will eventually show significant wear and deep dings in certain spots, making your playing uncomfortable, reducing the natural sustain, and, in the case of large frets, creating flat spots and intonation problems.

 

In most cases a fret levelling and dressing will be more than enough, but eventually there will be no more material to work on, and a refret will be necessary. 

 

There are different types of frets, made of different materials, and of different sizes. The perfect frets for you and your guitar depend on many factors, but the choice is mainly down to personal preference.

A simple conversation with the customer, explaining the various options and the pros and cons of different type of frets, will make sure that the customer gets the desired result.

 

A refret job includes the following:

 

• Removal of existing frets

• Radius sand the fret board (only rosewood and mahogany)

• Cleaning the fret slots of all residues and dirt

• Shape filing the top of each slot

• Cutting to radius and installing new frets

• Bevelling the fret ends

• Gluing fret ends or entire fret if necessary

• Fret levelling and dressing 

 

N.B.: Refretting of varnished maple necks, bound fret boards or with binding nibs, and the use of stainless steel frets, considerably increases the amount of time and work, and is reflected in the price.