Stewart MacDonald Fret Work Step-By-Step

Updated 2nd edition: more tools, new techniques!
Published by Stewart-MacDonald. The most popular fretting instruction
manual in the world, a best seller since fretmaster Dan Erlewine wrote
it in 1994! Our new updated 2nd edition reflects lots of innovative
tools and techniques that have come along since then. We reworked it
from the ground up, with colorful photos and revised text that
demonstrate clearly how to tackle all kinds of fret work. Simple jobs
and tricky problems are shown and explained from start to finish. Learn
the right way: gain the confidence to do your own fret work on new or
old guitars, maple necks, bound necks—any instrument that comes in your
door.


Chapters include:
Tools and supplies
Working with compound radius fretboards
Simple fret leveling and dressing
A basic fret job
A partial refret job
Fretting nonadjustable necks
Refretting a bound neck
Fretting Fender maple necks
Fretting Fender laminated fingerboards
Martin bar fretting
Fretting an unattached fingerboard
New technology: the Plek machine
Final setup

100 pages, softcover.

About the authors:
Erick Coleman: repairman, tech support guru and author. Erick
answers every kind of lutherie question from Stewart-MacDonald's
customers. His background includes years of traveling as a rock
guitarist, which is when he started doing his own repairs. He learned
from Dan Erlewine's videos, then in Dan's shop. Making a career of
guitar repair, Erick is now a technical support expert for StewMac.

Dan Erlewine is a well-known guitar repair veteran and author of bestselling videos and books on repair. His DVD series on instrument repair includes a dozen volumes as of this writing.





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