MusiclilyStainless Steel 2.9mm Guitar Fret Wires 24 Frets Fretwire Set for Fender Strat Tele Electric Guitar Bass, Chrome

When I finished, bends feel like they’re on ball bearings.Smooth as butter.This was my first fret job using stainless steel frets.These were very good quality.They are HARD to cut. Broke a pair of nippers on the first cut.I used a Dremel to cut them.Filing takes a lot of work.Polishing takes a lot of work. 4 levels of sanding. 600 grit to 1200 grit. Then a Dremel and car paint polish.The result? I will never use anything other than stainless steel frets on my guitars. They simply feel more solid when I play.

The media could not be loaded. Really nice and big. As you can see they clipped the end parts, really nice. Can’t wait to set them on my guitar. Will update when set on my guitar

Tried them first on an original pre Warmoth (Boogie Bodies) 45 year old flame maple neck with Birdseye maple Board.WOW! Smooth, Slick, hardly any leveling needed. Installed clean, and will stay on that neck forever.Next was another 40 year old Brazilian Rosewood Board Warmoth oldie. Same result, and the job went even quicker.The next few were old amber Mighty Mites; PERFECT! Everyone. Nothing feels like a worn finish piece of hard maple with the fastest smoothest slickest and brightest frets you can imagine.Now 1 am on my 7th installation. I am putting them on every one of my personal line of Boutique instruments, and all my clients LOVE them!One of my luthier partners who lives in another country I visit frequently and does custom work for me has asked me to pay him in sets of these rather than cash because he also loves 'em, but unfortunately so does his local customs authority, who levy a 100% import duty fee on them. So every time go, I take him 5 sets or more.I am now ordering 50 sets, 10 at a time.100% Stainless steel. Not the highest carbon ratio you will find in your big kitchen knives to be sure, but more than enough to give them the desired hardness, slickness and tonal ring. (yes, there is that trademark stainless steel bright zing if correctly and flush seated in the fret slot)If you plan on doing more than 1 neck save yourself and your old nipper and invest in a high carbon steel nipper. It is the only custom tool you really need, and only if you plan on doing several necks. They are pre-cut, semi pre bent, and definitely binding trimmed. Oh joy!BTW: I am a private custom builder for over 40 years.Cheers & Beers!

Awesome

Nice tone, very hard material!

These are very nice, cut and formed nicely, so 5 stars. Best to use a grindstone wheel (eg on a Dremmel) to grind length to fit. Being steel, they spark when grinding (normal fret material doesn't). That said, I'm keeping them for some time in the future to actually use them, maybe when I feel a little braver, as these puppies are just to hard to work with normal fretting tools, and I'm worried about how well they'll bend to conform to the curvature of my compound radius fretboard.

A quality product but, being steel instead of nickle, they are difficult to work with and do not file, bend or cut easy.

these are curved just right to make my rg550 refret damn near perfect. playability is better than i remember it.