Essential Fretting Tool Set – StewMac

Essential Fretting Tool Set

Good basic tools you’ll need to get started.
Includes the definitive Fret Work Step-By-Step book!

Want to learn how to fret a guitar, but not sure how to start or which tools to choose? Stop fretting…and start fretting! Assembled by our experts, the Essential Fretting Tool Set is a great way to master the fundamentals with only a modest investment in good quality tools.

These are the basic tools you’ll need for installing, leveling, crowning and inspecting frets.

And to give you the best possible head start, we include Fret Work Step-By-Step book. It’s the most complete book ever published on the subject, with techniques, tips, tools and tricks.

The Essential Fretting Set features the same tools we supply to professional repair shops—good tools that give you the confidence to do good work. They’ll help prepare you for more specialized jobs and tools later as your skills develop.

Includes (click the links for details on each tool)
• Fret Cutter
• Deadblow Fretting Hammer
• Fret Leveling File, 6″
• Double-edge Fret File, wide/jumbo
• Fret End Dressing File
• Fret Dressing Stick with 14 Micro-Mesh Belts
• Fret Rocker
• Fret Work Step-By-Step, 2nd edition

Works on stainless frets, too!
All of our tools are suitable for use on stainless-steel fretwire*. Modern stainless-steel fretwire is known to be harder than the traditional nickel-silver blends, but our own shop experience indicates the wire does not cause premature wear of files or sandpapers.
*Excludes our original Fret Tang Nippers. We recommend our Deluxe Fret Tang Nippers for stainless-steel fretwire.