Finish removal on frets

[JamesL]

How are all of you getting the new finish off of your frets?

 

[Death by Uberschall]

#0000 steel whool.  :icon_thumright:

 

[croquet hoop]

I stumbled on this the other day. The guy uses a filed nail to scrape the laquer. But steel wool is less agressive and works well anyway.

 

[-CB-]

Leo Fender developed the nail scraper method. 

 

[jay4321]

leveling/crowning process takes care of that

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Some extremists just plays the shyte off. But that's just hearsay!  :icon_jokercolor:

leveling/crowning process takes care of that

^^ This ^^

 

[Cagey]

Leo Fender developed the nail scraper method.

Hardly an endorsement. Leo developed a lot of things most people would be deeply embarrassed to have their name associated with. Witness every bridge he ever came up with. The guy came up with some interesting body/neck designs that he successfully reduced to practice and production, but had the mechanical savvy of your average June bug.

 

[-CB-]

Leo was a genius for straightforward simplicity based on his one predominant character trait:  He was a really cheap son-of-a-bitch.  All those terrible bridges are still used today, in one form or another.  They were cheap.  And they must have done something right, since nothing succeeds like success, and still being in use sixty years later must account for some measure of success.  The crescent file cut on the nail head was just another way for him to do "cheap".  No caster decals - cheap.  Nothing ever got tossed, wasted, thrown out.  Custom colors were more times than not, just oversprays of existing painted guitar bodies.  Wear through an Olympic white body to reveal... sunburst!