Fret Work Step-By-Step

a lot of good info in this book. very helpful for doing high quality fret work

RETRACTION REASON: NOT A REVIEW I would like to have in german. Is it possible to get it translated?
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If you've wanted to do your own fret work, but were scared, jump into it feet first after getting this book. This will be the MOST IMPORTANT tool you can use to start with. I got it separately, but it's FREE with the Essential Fret Kit. That is the way to go. Lots of clear and detailed pictures, (I like that), and concise instruction.

Covers almost all aspects of fretting in great detail and much more. Easy to understand, clear pictures help explain the tricky parts. The main thing I bought the book for was unfortunately not covered... How to compound-radius a fretboard.

The book could be better, don't help very much.
You must also buy the video to really understand how to do a fret job

This is a good book that covers a lot of different re-fretting scenarios. Unfortunately it was not what I was looking for. I was hoping for more focus on fretting a new guitar and doing the initial set up. Set up is not covered, but them again the book never claims that it is. In short, not what I was looking for but a really good book if you want to know a lot about re-fretting and possible problems you will encounter in the process.

This book is a definate help to a beginner, even with each guitar and neck being different it gives you a solid base understanding to do your own fretwork.

This book assumes you have a brain and are prepared to use it. It gives you a no nonsense approach to fretting and refretting. If you use this in conjunction with the Stew - Mac fretting table, found on this website, you'll do a fine job on a blank neck.
If you want to refret, it tells you how.
Anyone who doesn't 'get it' after reading this, shouldn't be doing the job.

I'm the kind of person who likes to measure 15 times before making a cut. That being said, having this book as a point of reference is a big help. I had performed a few refrets in the past, with success, but was never properly taught how to do one. This book served as a guide and answered a few nagging questions that I had about bound fretboards, Gibson binding nibs, Tele necks, etc. Highly recommended.

Purchased this book to help myself out on my first fretting job - the book is ok and does have quite a lot of useful information, but still left me with many questions. I also noticed that it does not cover a complete fretting job from scratch - as in building your own guitar. It doesn't have much information at all when starting with a blank fretboard where you would cut frets from scratch. Maybe they should have called it " Some Helpful hints for RE-FRETTING. On the plus side, it did help enough to give me some confidence to go forward with my fret job.