Stainless steel frets vs. regular

[mxaniac]

Re: Stainless steel frets vs. regular

This thread is very old and SS is old tech, the latest trend is zero gravity grown single crystal carbon fiber reinforced unobtanium. Installation is best achieved via explosion bonding.

https://youtu.be/u9_bqafUJfA

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Stainless steel frets vs. regular

This thread is very old and SS is old tech, the latest trend is zero gravity grown single crystal carbon fiber reinforced unobtanium. Installation is best achieved via explosion bonding.

https://youtu.be/u9_bqafUJfA

That's all well and good, but is there a cheap and effective way to color them black?

 

[mxaniac]

Re: Stainless steel frets vs. regular

That's all well and good, but is there a cheap and effective way to color them black?

Ionized deposition of fused nano-carbons.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Stainless steel frets vs. regular

A standard nickel silver fret will sound almost just like a stainless steel fret. One of the big issues with normal frets is, that they corrode extremely fast and once they got all grey etc, the sound different (bad in my opinion), but 90% of all people are not used to the sound of highly polished frets. We use stainless steel frets on all our guitars. And it is amazing, that even after years they are still shiny and leveled! You do not have to care about regretting those guitars ever. I think it should be industrial standard!

In this video, there is a part, where I talk a bit about it:
https://youtu.be/Bw19jFHXLHA

On an unrelated note, as the admin here, I have to say that Claas Guitars are wonderful instruments.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Stainless steel frets vs. regular

Stainless last a long time, but they're not impervious to wear.

If you play with a heavy touch, then it will slowly wear.

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Depends what you play with

Pretty much unscratchable with Nickel strings afaik