How to Level Crown & Polish Guitar Frets

Don't get now better 'n that!

Whenever you see grooves like that on the frets…. It is not because the nut was cut too low….it is because the nut is too high…. The player is pressing a greater pressure to get to the frets and also causing sharping and probably playing out of tune. Whatever gauge of string you play, the setup is half of whatever the gauge is or, a .009… your natural nut slot should make that gauge ride across the first two-three frets and half or .04/.05. Bill Nash then takes it a step further by cutting the nut to just start buzzing and then goes back and removes some of the fret to make it play cleanly and that ensures a low comfortable action in which you barely press down for string to fret contact…. Makes for a low action and easier fretting period… most people never spend the money past the guitar purchase of a shitty factory set up which is neutral and basic. Nut slots are set high from the factory because they cannot possibly know if you play 9s or 13s…. Your set up means everything…. Nut set up is EVERYTHING PERIOD!! Get that wrong and replace frets in the first 5 frets…. Seriously!!

Congratulations, you have just deleted your fret crowns.....

The concave file you’re using doesn’t crown frets by just filing normally like you did. You need to address each fret and really tilt the file to crown from both sides. The Z-File would’ve been perfect for the application you followed for this video. It’s a great starting point but you have some very flat frets at the end of the video.

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Thanks for the video, what made the frets even withough the dimples? And what is the green polishing thing made of?

Sorry to say this but this is an awful tutorial. You do it all wrong.

keep your greasy fingers off my guitar .. nice that's a lot of elbow grease but worth it i would run tape under the fret I'm a clutch

I will have to try this

what's next after you polishing? install new sets of string and adjust the truss rod or adjust the truss rod first then install new sets of string? thank you for the answer.

What is that green thing ?

beautiful job!

The music is distracting and annoying

I'm dreading this. It's time and I'm scared to have it done. My fear is frets becoming too flat.

Didn't mark off frets with permanent marker before leveling or crowing. Huge amount of flat left on top of the frets after the work. Ignore this video and go watch something else.

Пркольно. Только вот напильника такого нету(

Terrible video

Damn nice work!!

Looks beautiful.

What about keeping the radius?

Genius thanks I got the tools just not the curved rasp. Only normal ones. Hmm

Beautiful work.👍

Why did you sand before filing?

Did you make sure the neck is flat before sanding?

What a joy to watch. Now, that's how you make a great video. Well done.

They used 2use pure nickle strings.
Then 80 / 20 then phosphorpus. All done to INCREASE FRET WEAR.
protest.
Say YES TO ALUMINUM.
Sar NO to stainless frets. Say YES to TRUE stainless frets.
Hi strings must be PLATED TIN OR NICKLE etc.

Is that a Rock version of “Ants go marching in” at the beginning?

Beautiful polishing! Not so sure about the leveling and crowning…
Thanks for the vid!

Plain sandpaper on metal?

I have my very own guitar guy for this 😂 ( my brother is a luthier 😊 I play, he does what ever is needed to my guitar(s).

That 2nd fret looks flatAF in the last frame of the vid. Yikes.

The frets are polished perfectly, but they are pretty flat.

polished YES crowned NO

Excellent video on what not to do to your fretboard.

Excuse the dumb question, what is the green wax?

So all your tools come from China and arrives in March if i ordered today? Its what it said! Screw that and Xi....

That is NOT how to do this! No straight edge to check if the neck is totaly straight. Don't use wood to check this! Using masking tape is OK. Use a levelingbeam to get the frets to the same hight. The use of the crownigfile is OK but mark the frets with a sharpi. There should be just a narrow mark of the sharpi left after crowning. And why is he using his improvised leveling beam after crowning? He flatens the frets again and that is certainly not what you want!

So not what you should be doing. Good on you for sharing, but if you are reading this comment, this is not the best way to be dressing and crowning frets.

Good workmanship, but it's totally fucked up...

Your crowning tool did not do it, you removed too much material on your fret ends and your crowning is dead flat . Why make a video saying that’s how professionals are doing it, that’s very misleading and a bit unfair.

Hmmmm
Good video if you are trying to achieve flat frets.

Sorry but this does not look good. A lot of material was taken off but the frets still weren't crowned at the end. Try the sharpie method.

Super

ano yang green na bato boss?