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Updated 2nd edition: more tools, new techniques

Fret Work Step-By-Step

By Erick Coleman with Dan Erlewine
Published by Stewart-MacDonald. The most popular fretting instruction manual in the world, a best seller since fretmaster Dan Erlewine wrote it in 1994! Our new updated 2nd edition reflects lots of innovative tools and techniques that have come along since then. We reworked it from the ground up, with colorful photos and revised text that demonstrate clearly how to tackle all kinds of fret work. Simple jobs and tricky problems are shown and explained from start to finish. Learn the right way: gain the confidence to do your own fret work on new or old guitars, maple necks, bound necks—any instrument that comes in your door. 100 pages, softcover.

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Chapters include:
Tools and supplies
Working with compound radius fretboards
Simple fret leveling and dressing
A basic fret job
A partial refret job
Fretting nonadjustable necks
Refretting a bound neck
Fretting Fender maple necks
Fretting Fender laminated fingerboards
Martin bar fretting
Fretting an unattached fingerboard
New technology: the Plek machine
Final setup

100 pages, softcover.

About the authors:
Erick Coleman: repairman, tech support guru and author. Erick answers every kind of lutherie question from Stewart-MacDonald's customers. His background includes years of traveling as a rock guitarist, which is when he started doing his own repairs. He learned from Dan Erlewine's videos, then in Dan's shop. Making a career of guitar repair, Erick is now a technical support expert for StewMac.

Dan Erlewine is a well-known guitar repair veteran and author of bestselling videos and books on repair. His DVD series on instrument repair includes a dozen volumes as of this writing.

Erick and Dan are regular contributors to our Trade Secrets E-mail Newsletter and to Stewart-MacDonald's product research and development.

The basic tools to get you started
Fret Work Step-By-Step is included FREE in our Essential Fretting Tool Kit, a set of the seven fundamental tools you'll need for accurate fret work.

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9-01-2010

As Always

As always I've learned more techniques from the new FWSS. Dan and the guys at Stew-Mac are the greatest. Great service and info!!

Flankmanoman Washington, Pa.

8-09-2010

Straightforward text, great photography

Well written, easy to read and understand, clear, color photographs that plainly illustrate the concepts. I struggled with fretwork on my first guitar a few years ago and the tiny black and white images in the first version of the book were difficult to follow. I didn't completely get the hang of it until I had some expert one-on-one attention in person. Erick does a good job of presenting a rather formulaic process of fretting, so that through repetition in each case study, you get the idea of first, second, third, and so on. I learned some useful things from this book, was reminded of a few things I had forgotten, and am very glad to have it.

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