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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.
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Polishing off a fret job: glossy-smooth frets
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Fret Polishing Wheels
Fret Polishing Wheels
 
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4 11-18-2010
Good

Good product, especially the fine wheels. The extra fine wheels are a little too fine though, you get a better (and easier) final polish with a felt wheel and a bit of polishing compound.
I've read that you can put a groove in these wheels with a file handle but i found i just ended up with a shiny file handle. Folding a bit of 320 grit sandpaper to a nice round fret shape and shaping the wheel on that works a lot better.

DaveR  UK Read my reviews (2)
4 10-17-2010
Shiny frets

These are great, the shine you get is brilliant but make sure you don't have the Dremel to fast as they get very hot. Be careful with the file to put the groove in, they will polish the teeth off. If they came with a groove already in they would achieve excellent rating.

Ian Verner  Sydney, Australia Read my reviews (21)
4 10-12-2010
Be careful!

Practice on something besides your customer's guitar first. These really heat up the frets, and they tend to bounce so use some kind of fretboard guard. Once you get the hang of it, they work like a charm. They will polish frets to almost a glass like surface.

Ricky Hendrix  Russellville Arkansas Read my reviews (8)
4 9-15-2010
Simple and effective

Combined with the fretboard protectors, these wheels are awesome. For non-maple boards, my prior method was to use super fine steel wool to remove the gunk and clean up everything. Now I use the Ernie Ball fret board wipes and the Stewart-MacDonald fretboard protectors with the extra fine wheels in a low speed battery dremel tool to give the frets a quick touch up when needed at string change time. I have not had to resort to the fine wheels yet but bought the full kit because I know that if I went individually I would have needed the one I didn't buy the next time. Good value and works well.

DR Chevalier  Ontario, Canada Read my reviews (5)
5 8-13-2010
Fret polishing

Fastest smoothest fret polishing I have ever used. I allready had the dremel with the extention snake thang. Be sure to tape the neck first.

Big Jon  Tennessee Read my reviews (6)
4 8-11-2010
Essential (not for everybody)

If you do a lot of instruments and make a living at it, these help not only speed up the process but (in the right hands) insure spectacular results. (Caution, because it can heat frets up real hot: work with delicate care not to heat them to the point of melting glue or loosening up; effectively ruining leveling work). With acquired skill, these are a great finish and can skillfully be used with a Dremel/flex shaft for crowning. I use these all the time.

Jonathan Wilson  Sylmar, Ca. Read my reviews (2)
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