D'Addario PW-FRP Fret Polishing System Reviews
Make your frets shine like new. The Fret Polishing System from D'Addario is a unique system of fret-polishing paper. Just select the correct slot for your guitar's frets using the template built into the Fret Polishing System package. Then, with the strings off, you'll polish each fret with a rapid "sanding" motion. In just moments, your guitar's frets will be polished to a beautiful shine, so your guitar looks and plays its best. You get five sheets of fret polishing paper with the D'Addario Fret Polishing System.
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Highest Rated Reviews
These are Great!
These are great to have for routine maintenance. I do my own fret work complete. I would not recommend these as a cheap way out of doing hard work on heavy projects, but if you tend to maintain your frets and need a quick shine maybe inbetween string changes or just for the hell of it, these are great!
Great for regular guitar maintenance, not for heavy duty stuff.
I recently tried these out on REALLY dirty frets. and to be honest... it does fine, but to get a nice shiny and glassy fret, not really. My recommendation, use quadruple 0 (the finest) steel wool, THEN use these to get a glassy finish. However, again I had REALLY dirty frets. These when used on there own are best for frets that have been polished before. What I mean is when they get duller or a bit dirty, use these to get back that nice mirror reflection. Again, just not for REALLY dirty frets staring out. Not bad, but just for regular guitar maintenance, not heavy duty maintenance.
fret polishing
these polishing papers are 3M flexible polishing paper the blue is 1200 grit it comes in aprox. 9"x11" sheets for about 3 bucks you get 6 out of a sheet cut to the size that d'addario cuts them to. they come in 400 to 8000 grit. Also the idea of using steel wool makes me itch. Consider 3M scotch brite pads instead, using steel wool which sheds around magnets scares me.
Pretty decent
I got this stuff that came with the D'Addario tool kit (which is excellent). This stuff does a great job but, you will need to use a different part of the paper since after a few frets, that part of the paper is dirty. I'd use this stuff in a pinch but I wouldn't count on it long term.
I love this
These clean and polish your frets to a glass-like smoothness. Really improves the tone of the notes, especially bends. I use it every time I change strings.
They Work Well, But...
I'd never done fretwork on a guitar before, but with a little help (OK a LOT of help) from Youtube, I was able to do the job well. These polishing clothes did an excellent job making the frets really glassy after I'd finished the leveling, crowning, and smoothing.
The "But" is that they're way overpriced. They're small sheets of non-woven material that fit inside a box that could hold a 3-pack of strings. (Yep, they're that small.) They're probably are worth about a dime apiece. I've heard that they are the same thing jewelers use for polishing. I'm going to look into that.
Still, they work well, and if you prefer convenience over economy they're not a bad way to go.
Disappointed
I thought templete would be at least a plastic device. It was just a thin piece of cardboard
Not bad, but not the best way to do it
These don't do a bad job, put a decent shine on my frets. But the sheets wear out quickly, and forget using the fret template over again. It is fairly useless anyway, but after one polishing I doubt I could use it again. The best way I've found to polish frets doesn't cost much more than this. Go to an auto parts store and get some Eagle One Nevr-Dull and some blue painters tape. Put the tape on your fretboard to protect it, and just polish your frets with the Nevr-Dull. It is much quicker, easier, and does a much, much better job than the Fret Polishing System. Oh, and you'll get about 50 more fret polishes out of it, too, instead of a couple. So while this isn't bad, it just isn't that good. I'd recommend the Nevr-Dull route over this to anyone.
