Just as an aside, I just noticed this yesterday...
Holy shit!!he is more stupid than he looks . This is charlatan YouTube at its absolute worst.
I started when you basically had to make your own tools so I don't buy a huge number and prefer the quality of high end engineering tools to the mostly low quality crap that passes for "luthier" tools.I knew I was doing something wrong. I'm always buyin' to much stuff.....because,
this is what I use for crowning, fretting & buffing....
Cheers!
Have you ever seen a Chapman Railboard?I started when you basically had to make your own tools so I don't buy a huge number and prefer the quality of high end engineering tools to the mostly low quality crap that passes for "luthier" tools.
This is pretty cool. It doesn't take away the skill needed, but it does dramatically reduce repetitive stress on the hands.
I've played a few (badly) but never had to work on the fretboard of one.Have you ever seen a Chapman Railboard?
They're really unique in that the frets are a milled part of the 'rail'. There's a radial relief milled into the frets of the larger strings. Barely any relief at the first fret & max relief around the 12th. As a result the action can be adjusted lower & more comfortable that the traditional 'Sticks'.
Absolutely this, I can’t count how many guitars I had on my workbench with a home made fret job.TOTAL BS. If the joker thinks that you don't need experience and a whole bunch of other tools to do a basic fret dress then he is more stupid than he looks . This will be a paid advertisement for that file. You can dumb down one aspect of the process but it will just result in idiot diagnostic issues being "fixed" with this . The number of guitars that I see that need a refret because of incompetent use of "make it easier" tools would shock you. Even the use of the fret rocker without a whole lot of other assessments and adjustments first will give you seriously misleading information. Even if the tool is good to sell it like this is like saying that buying a high quality spanner means you can fix your own car. This is charlatan YouTube at its absolute worst.