Stainless Steel Frets

cowcowcow · #1 12-14-2002, 11:27 AM

I have a warmoth strat with stainless steel frets, I LOVE THEM!

I want to refret my RG with Stainless Steel Frets but.....who sell/refret stainless steel frets?

darren wilson · #2 12-14-2002, 01:06 PM

As far as i know, Warmoth is the only company offering any kind of aftermarket neck with stainless steel frets as an opion. You could try contacting them to see if you can buy the fretwire on its own. Other than that, i have no idea.

Project Guitar · #3 12-14-2002, 04:56 PM

You can purchase them here and any repair shop should be able to do the refret for you.......

Parker Guitars use them as well as several high grade smaller manufacturer's. Plenty of bango's and other acoustic manufacturer's are or have switched to them as well.

cowcowcow · #4 12-14-2002, 10:22 PM

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Owing to the difficulty of the installation process, Jody has decided not to offer the stainless steel fret wire for sale. You can, however, have Jody install Forever Frets in your banjo. The cost is $500, which may seem high until you consider that you may never need another fret job for the life of your instrument!

they don't sell them separately and the installation cost $500!...

Project Guitar · #5 12-15-2002, 01:18 AM

ok let's try Edenhaus next

Don't worry we'll find them for ya =o)

cowcowcow · #6 12-15-2002, 10:00 AM

ok!........a complete fret job from the will cost me $300!
that's almost 2 warmoth necks

if I buy the SS frets from them, who should I find to do the fret job from me? any recommendation?

Project Guitar · #7 12-16-2002, 03:51 AM

Try LGM just click above ^

littlegreenman · #8 12-16-2002, 06:46 AM

I'll say straight up, I have never done the SS frets, and I have talked to one guy who has. He told me, you HAVE to press them dead on, unless you have special tools for levelling, you can do it with standard files, but it's a ton of work. I'm willing to try it, worst case scenario, I have to put regular frets back in.

In all honesty though, I had a Parker with SS frets, and it was the ONE thing I didn't like about it. They are to hard for me, I like the meaty feeling of regular good old dunlops

bammbamm · #9 12-16-2002, 12:01 PM

I have a Parker Fly with stainless frets, Oddly enough, JUST like the one Jeremy is referring to...in fact its the same one.

At any rate, I have the action dialed in so low that you really dont have to dig in to get a good sound, its so smooth and the frets are so polished that you don';t get that fret squeek that you normally get on the nickle alloy frets. I do like a taller fret, but the ones on the fly suit me fine...
Stainless is nice, and they should wear allot longer than the nickle.
Bamm