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Super-smooth frets with your Dremel or Foredom tool

Fret Polishing Wheels


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These rubberized ceramic polishing wheels for your rotary tool will give your fret jobs the final mirror shine and ultra-smooth feel players love. Much faster and easier than hand polishing! The complete set includes fine and extra-fine wheels (5 each), with a 1/8"-shank mandrel.

Also available in our Flex Shaft Fret Polishing Kit.

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Fret Polishing Wheels
 
  Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
5269 Complete outfit Yes
$15.25

5266 Fine wheels (green), package of 5 Yes
$6.25

5267 Extra-fine wheels (white), package of 5 Yes
$6.25

5268 Mandrel, 1/8"-dia. shank Yes
$2.75


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Mount the wheel and mandrel in your Dremel, Dremel Flex Shaft or Foredom handpiece.

Lightly groove the edge of the wheel with a small round file. The slim handpiece makes it easy to hold the grooved wheel on a crowned fret, to gently polish it to a smooth shine.

Works on stainless frets, too!
All of our tools are suitable for use on stainless-steel fretwire, with the exception of our Fret Tang Nippers and Fret Cutters. 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.
Using fret polishing wheels on a flex shaft
Polishing off a fret job: glossy-smooth frets
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Fret Polishing Wheels
Fret Polishing Wheels
 
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5 2-10-2013
Did a great job - requires practice

Out of the box these wheels need to be shaped to the fret wire first. Some practice in rotary tool speed, angle of attack and a light touch is required. Needless to say, practice on scrap before you work on your instrument. Once I got the hang of it, the results were much better than I expected, and the amount of work much lower that polishing manually. This was my first fret job, so view the feedback accordingly... :) The kit also came in quite handy when I had to adjust a fret after finding a buzz, then had to re-polish. Great tool set!

Jeff Wolters  Exeter, NH Read my reviews (15)
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5 1-25-2013
Make a tough job easy!!!

These wheels, along with a felt wheel and rouge make frets shine like mirrors... These remove minute scratches with little effort...

Greg G.  Coldwater, MI Read my reviews (2)
5 9-18-2012
The smoothest frets you'll ever play.

Gone are the days of steel wool and strings dragging across less than mirror-polish results during bends. Require a light touch, but this is the road to perfection.

Greg Robinson - Guitar & Amplifier Technician  Melbourne, Australia Read my reviews (54)
3 5-28-2012
Be careful with these!

They are hard to control and it's really easy to ding the fretboard. You have to tape off the fretboard or use some protector, more work. They seem to do an uneven job of polishing too. It's much better to just pinch them between your fingers and use them by hand rubbing back and forth.

Mikaleno  Los Angeles, CA Read my reviews (2)
2 4-04-2012
There are better options

Not bad but I could not get the results I was looking for on my fretwork. I recommend the Micro-Mesh system instead. It's more work but you will achieve gleaming results!

Suhr3825  CA Read my reviews (27)
5 12-17-2011
Wow!

Coupled with a Foredom tool and a little experience this system is blazing fast! The most important thing is to take one quick light stroke with a wheel that's been grooved with a round file. A little goes a long way!

Wilmer Gingerich  Jamesport MO Read my reviews (77)
4 10-12-2011
Work well but hard to perfect!

These work well as stated but are tricky to use as you must first groove the discs properly

it's a real challenge to sit them at 90 degrees to the fret you are trying to polish
even if you're using the flexible shaft on the Dremel
so you want to make the groove in the wheel ideally off centre so you can angle the Dremel a bit.

Wheel can slip off fret suddenly if you're not careful and cause marks on fretboard

Use with care!

Neilmac  Emerald Victoria Australia Read my reviews (4)
3 7-22-2011
Works As Advertised But Too Tedious

Indeed, they'll make 'em shine but Micro Mesh over a medium density foam pad is WAY FASTER with no worries about running off the fret and "engraving" the fret board.

Jack Straw Guitars  Prescott, Arizona Read my reviews (7)
5 3-02-2011
Works great

I used these polishing wheels on an ES-335 and they work great. I chucked them directly into my old dremel tool and had no trouble getting a quick mirror finish on the frets. What a great timesaver. I would recommend these to anyone.

A. Scott  Tulsa OK Read my reviews (25)
5 1-12-2011
nice frets

Almost every guitar I get in for a set up or repair has dull or corroded frets. These polishing wheels work great to get them nice and shiney again.

Dieter Billinger  Toronot Canada Read my reviews (8)
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