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Learn professional guitar repair
Dan Erlewine's Fretting Series
Fret Basics covers fret dressing and refretting with basic tools. Dan describes it this way: "With basic tools and simple skills, you can do excellent fretwork. This DVD shows you how."
Advanced Fretting will teach you how to do professional-level work on tricky fret jobs. This is practical training for everyone involved in guitar repair. Advanced tools are demonstrated in use on real jobs, so you can decide what you really need for the work you do.
• Vol 1: Complete acoustic and electric refretting.
• Vol 2: Additional advanced techniques for the professional.
Each DVD is 2 hours. Sold individually or SAVE when you buy all 3 DVDs!
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These DVDs are not "region-specific," and are intended for worldwide use.
Dan Erlewine's Fret Basics
"Watch this video before you invest in fret tools, and you'll know what to buy." — Dan
The focus of this video
Quality fret dressing and re-fretting with basic tools, on a budget, and in a "home-shop" situation.
Information covered
• Controlling a hard-to-adjust neck
• Simple straightedges and leveling tools
• Tabletop neck-jigging
• Fret removal
• Measuring and fitting fretwire
• The basics of leveling and dressing frets
• Techniques for fretting bolt-on electrics and "set-neck" acoustics
Dan Erlewine's Advanced Fretting Vol. 1
"I pull out all the stops on this tape and share every trick I know. Some of these I've never shown anyone before. You'll feel as if you've spent several weekends in my shop working with me on some tough fretjobs!" — Dan
The focus of this video
Beyond the information covered in Fret Basics. Professional-level work on tricky fretjobs.
Information covered
• Heat-straightening a warped neck
• Compression fretting using a hammer and the fret press
• Controlling a nonadjustable neck in the Neck Jig
• Fretting a bound fingerboard
• Very difficult truss rod fix
• Vintage fret job considerations
• Crowning and polishing frets
• A low-fret job for Leon Rhodes
Bonus: See and hear Dan's hero Leon Rhodes play. Filmed in Nashville, this is a mini guitar lesson you shouldn't miss.
Dan Erlewine's Advanced Fretting Vol. 2
"I simply couldn't fit all the fretting tips and techniques - nor the variety of fret jobs - that I wanted to share in just one advanced fretting tape. Read the tape descriptions, and you'll see why. For example, would you miss 'Fender Sideways Fretting'? No way!" — Dan
The focus of this video
Additional advanced techniques for the professional.
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Refretting, leveling, crowning and polishing frets in the Neck Jig |
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Fretting for the production shop |
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Using an arbor press for fretting |
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The Fender "sideways" fretting |
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Tips from luthiers Michael Stevens, T.J. Thompson, Frank Ford and
Bryan Galloup |
These DVDs are not "region-specific," and are intended for worldwide use.
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The Fret Basics DVD I ordered sure opened my eyes. This will really help raise my level of proficiency and save me a lot of time and anxiety. | | | Gary Choppick
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| September 22, 2008
Thank you again for your informative website, your quality products, and your incredibly fast delivery service. I thought the Fret Basics video was outstanding. I plan on ordering all of your instructional videos at some point. My customers can't get over what a difference a quality fret job or neck adjustment does for a guitar player's speed, dynamics, and tone. | | | Michael Carriere
New Orleans, LA | |
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I have two books by Mr. Erlewine and I've just bought his Fret Basics DVD. I think it's amazing to have you all there. My ultimate project will be to make my own guitar and I'm studying all about that now thanks to you. | | | Grant Bruce
Skelmersdale England | |
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