NutBehindTheGuitar
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So I regularly search the Reverb site for Warmoth guitar necks and I am amazed that about half of the Warmoth necks listed come with nickel frets. Why would anyone choose nickel frets at this point ?
My reasoning is this. Stainless steel frets are like a $25 option on a Warmoth neck. Now there is on line luthier in Georgia who offers stainless steel re-frets for $365 https://aperioguitar.com/stainlesssteelrefretting/ which apparently is a bargain price. Regular nickel steel re-frets range from say $250 to about double that.
Now depending on you you believe, stainless steel frets either (A.) never wear out or (B.) last two or three times as long as nickel steel.
So if you work on the stainless steel frets never wear out assumption you would spend $25 when the neck was purchased and that would be it.
If you work on the stainless steel frets last free times as long assumption, you would spend $25 when the neck was purchased, plus $365 for one stainless steel re-fret for a total of $390 . It's nickel steel cousin would have undergone three re-frets in the same period, for a total of $750. This price doesn't include nut replacement and the set up that normally goes along with a re-fret, just that those are going to be 3x for the nickel steel and 1 x for the stainless.
For those of you who have stainless steel frets, and play a lot, or play in harsh environments (cruise ships, smoky bars, refineries) how are the stainless frets holding up?
Bye for now
My reasoning is this. Stainless steel frets are like a $25 option on a Warmoth neck. Now there is on line luthier in Georgia who offers stainless steel re-frets for $365 https://aperioguitar.com/stainlesssteelrefretting/ which apparently is a bargain price. Regular nickel steel re-frets range from say $250 to about double that.
Now depending on you you believe, stainless steel frets either (A.) never wear out or (B.) last two or three times as long as nickel steel.
So if you work on the stainless steel frets never wear out assumption you would spend $25 when the neck was purchased and that would be it.
If you work on the stainless steel frets last free times as long assumption, you would spend $25 when the neck was purchased, plus $365 for one stainless steel re-fret for a total of $390 . It's nickel steel cousin would have undergone three re-frets in the same period, for a total of $750. This price doesn't include nut replacement and the set up that normally goes along with a re-fret, just that those are going to be 3x for the nickel steel and 1 x for the stainless.
For those of you who have stainless steel frets, and play a lot, or play in harsh environments (cruise ships, smoky bars, refineries) how are the stainless frets holding up?
Bye for now