HOw do you clean your Frets?

[LtKojak]

Re: HOw do you clean your Frets?

Great idea with the magnet.
I went to hardware store today and bought the masking tape and the 0000 steel wool.
They had so many different type of Dremel tools with variety of prices. Which tool would you guys suggest. I don't want to spend a lot of money for a toll I won't you more then couple times year.

This is the tool for the Dremel:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Frettin..._abrasives/Ceramic_Fret_Polishing_Wheels.html

A bit of an overkill for just one guitar, though...

 

[bahadir]

Re: HOw do you clean your Frets?

I recommend and use Gorgomyte.
http://www.gorgomyte.com/

 

[Bass_Medic_05]

Re: HOw do you clean your Frets?

Dremmel tool with a cloth buffing wheel and jewlers rouge. I use one of the Stew Mack metal fret guards to protect the board and polish the frets to a mirror like shine. I finish it all off with a Q-Tip soaked in Fret Doctor for the fret board once a year or so on all my guitars.

Yeah thats what my buddy uses!

 

[GLJazz]

Re: HOw do you clean your Frets?

+ 1 in protecting the pickups getting the fibers from Steel Wool in your pickups will kill um!!

In my younger years i made that mistake and let some fibers get in to some stock Fender MIM single coils. Hasn't particularly affected the sound that i can recall, but i'd just as soon have it out. Any way to clear that out?


Back on topic... I'll have to look in to the dremmel trick. Because i didn't want to have to think about the fibers i went with wet-sand paper. Works wonders probably along the same lines as steel wool does.

 

[Bludave]

Re: HOw do you clean your Frets?

I use 2 pieces of tape. One above and one below each fret(to protect the board), then I buff the fret with 00000 steel wool. I also place a piece of tape over the pickups to prevent any steel wool sticking. Close to the body I tape a piece of paper on either side of the FB to protect the finis there.