Fishman Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 About time I learned to do the stuff that I usually pay for, eg fret work Any recommendations welcome Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 I might talk about a river in S America... but whatever. Buy a few: I love the short ones, which fit tight places. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velarian Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_notched_straightedge_bass.htm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 everything you could possibly want. https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/fretting/products/essential-fret-levelling-and-dressing-toolkit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, bertbass said: everything you could possibly want. https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/fretting/products/essential-fret-levelling-and-dressing-toolkit Except the notched straight edge is for the two common guitar scale lengths only and therefore no use for basses. I've just had a look on the Crimson website and they don't appear to do any bass scale-length versions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Another option is to buy a straight edge like a metre rule and file notches in the relevant fret positions. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigguy2017 Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Thomann for the HB ones G&W - notched straight edge (guitarsandwoods.com) they're in Portugal but do ship to UK I have the Crimson ones for guitar and bass but they don't appear to have bass ones... maybe give them a call avoid the eBay cheapies - they are not straight! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikay Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 7 hours ago, bertbass said: Another option is to buy a straight edge like a metre rule and file notches in the relevant fret positions. I did exactly this and it works perfectly 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Forrer Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I did the same, marked the frets on the rule then ground them out. Works a treat and cost me nothing as I already had the rule. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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