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Post subject: Brighten up that fretboard!
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:20 am
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The black Squier i have I have owned for about 3 years. It was a blemish, and the rosewood on the fretboard was dull with very little luster and the frets were dull with little shine. The neck was straight and it played well and for an inexspensive guitar the action was good and low. Actually, three of my Squiers have come with fretboards like this.

A lot of expensive guitars have frets that really shine and the fretboard looks like a nice piece of furniture. I read a post a while back where the person wrote about making his fret shine like chrome. When I read that a light bulb popped on in my head. One of my other hobbies is yoyoing, and some time back I took a aluminum yoyo and polished it until it had a chrome like finish using my dremal and some polishing compound. I have also refinished several pieces of furniture and had used steel wool and had all this stuff.

So I took the steel wool and rubbed the rosewood in the direction of the grain taking a fine layer of dust off the top. Then wiped that down and took masking tape and taped off the rosewood. Then I took the steelwool and rubbed down the frets, going back and forth several times on each fret. Then I took the dremal and a buffing attachement with the polishing compound and buffed out each fret. I removed the tape and then wiped the frets down and applied some Dr. Stringfellow Lem-oil to the fretboard. The end result is real nice in person but I can't get a decent picture and I didn't take any before pictures. Also, if you have any sharpe fret ends, before you remove the tape is a good time to use the dremel to cut those down.



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Before: My shoreline gold Squier Strat.

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