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8" Wooden Radius-sanding Blocks


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Accurately true or change a fingerboard's radius
These 8" radius-sanding blocks are for consistent, full-fingerboard radius leveling of frets or fingerboards when used with sandpaper. They create an accurate radius quickly, without guesswork.

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8 Wooden Radius-sanding Blocks
 
Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
0425 Set of 9 SAVE $14.00 Yes
$129.55

0415 7-1/4" radius Yes
$15.95

0405 9-1/2" radius Yes
$15.95

0416 10" radius Yes
$15.95

0417 12" radius Yes
$15.95

0419 14" radius Yes
$15.95

0420 15" radius Yes
$15.95

0418 16" radius Yes
$15.95

0421 17" radius Yes
$15.95

0403 20" radius Yes
$15.95


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Use our hardwood sanding blocks as fret levelers, with 220 through 400-grit Stikit self-adhesive abrasives. With 80 through 220-grit Stikit, they're used for shaping fingerboards. They apply a radius quickly, accurately and without guesswork. For compound radii, change blocks as you progress along the neck.

Also see our shorter blocks for spot leveling, and for use as clamping cauls when gluing frets.

Each hardwood block is 8" (203.20mm) long and 2-3/4" (69.85mm) wide.

What's your radius?
Quickly find the curvature of a fingerboard or bridge with a set of radius gauges. Use them frequently to check your work as you smooth or shape a fingerboard or frets: a quick visual check keeps you from accidentally altering the shape—a mistake that's easy to make and hard to fix.

Radius Gauges


Cut and stick!
3M Stikit Gold Paper Self-adhesive Abrasives are the right width for our leveling and radius sanding tools. Attach 80 through 220-grits for radiusing and leveling the fingerboard, and 220 through 400-grits for leveling the frets.
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8 Wooden Radius-sanding Blocks
Fretboard Radius-sanding Blocks
 
4.5 out of 5 stars
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5 5-30-2013
Great price, good tool

Great for fret leveling and when used with a shooting board perfect for profiling a radius to a fingerboard blank from flat stock. I only wish they were about a half inch wider.

PST Guitars  King George, VA Read my reviews (8)
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5 5-20-2013
great product

the radius sanding block I bought is the perfect tool for sanding a radius on a fret board. I would highly recomend this tool

Rick H  aylmer quebec ca.
5 4-25-2013
Works great

Worked great leveling out some worn frets on a friends guitar.

Brazos Pirate  TX Read my reviews (10)
5 4-15-2013
Great Blocks

These are great for leveling and touching up spots. If you want absolute accuracy, go for the aluminum blocks

TisDale Custom Guitars  Renton, WA, USA Read my reviews (52)
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5 3-23-2013
Multitool!

It's great for nearly anything that's radius related. Use it for leveling frets, as a template for making radius gauges, to hold necks tightly when clamped. Overall great product!

Sander  Tromsø, Norway Read my reviews (10)
2 3-06-2013
Make sure you check with a straight edge

These can warp like any piece of wood. Check them with a straight edge before you do any precision planing. Also check them throughout its life use - what's straight now may not be later. Perhaps if these were quarter it might make a difference. Wish you guys still had those Koontz (sp?) resin blocks! Safest bet - save for the aluminum ones.

GM Reszel  Midwest Read my reviews (6)
5 2-24-2013
Lots of uses

I have a collection of these in 4" and 8" lengths in many of the popular radi'. Can't live without them.

Tom Sawyer (really!)  Vernon, CT Read my reviews (8)
5 2-18-2013
Perfect!

The finish was very good!

Adriano VIeira  Brazil Read my reviews (2)
5 1-27-2013
8 'Wooden sanding block

Great bit of kit for the odd one or two jobs

Colinz  Auckland New Zealand Read my reviews (11)
5 1-08-2013
Perfect-o

Have you got an annoying problem with those ridiculous Jumbo Frets? Bing boom not anymore you don't. Its just that easy. Pick the correct radius, place your guitar on a level stable surface and support the neck and grind away until those railroad ties are down to a manageable level. Then mask off the board, and polish with steel wool. At least that's what i did with a guitar i got on clearance which had, quite literally, NO - NONE - NADA - 0 fret work at all. I'm not exaggerating. They pressed the frets into the neck and then shipped it out. The ends were like barbed wire and the tops of the frets must have been 3/16" off the board. Now its fine. I'm going to buy every single radius block Stew Mac sells plus all the 4 inch ones too.

Blackplates  Aberdeen Md. Read my reviews (10)
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