stainless steel frets? - Guitars101

spiderrocknroll · 01-14-2007, 10:24 PM

if you have them on any guitars you own, how do you like them? any mid priced set necked guitars come with stainless steel frets? thanks.

FretDevil · 01-15-2007, 03:34 AM

I use stainless frets on all the necks I build unless I'm asked not to. They polish up great and they're very durable. The cost is twice that of nickel-silver, but I think it's well worth it.

**rjfoster** · 01-15-2007, 05:01 AM

Is there any difference in tone using steel vs nickle-silver? (I have a Strat that needs refretted)

Rj

FretDevil · 01-15-2007, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by rjfoster

Is there any difference in tone using steel vs nickle-silver? (I have a Strat that needs refretted)

Rj

I do them with both stainless and nickel-silver and I've never noticed any tone difference. Stainless is definitely the more dense of the two, but I don't think there's any more tone transfer.

**rjfoster** · 01-15-2007, 05:27 AM

Hmmmm - well I may go with the stainless. After all the factory frets only lasted about 20 yrs! lol

Thx for the info!

Rj