I had not even heard of the Baroque file till this thread. I have not found that many positive reviews and even on an Amazon page selling the thing it mentions that it is an aggressive file. I still prefer the Z file.
The last post answered some of the questions regarding straightness etc.
A couple of definitions may also help.
Often the term "fret dress" is used by some to mean overall fret work, this is not the same as fret dressing.
Fretwork consists of the following...
Leveling to make the tops of the frets relative to one another level along the length of the neck.
Crowning follows leveling to reshape the fret profile.
A narrow land needs to be left so the crowning does not take away the previously leveled top land of the fret.
Land the part of the fret the string will make contact with when fretting. If too wide or not central to the fret it will cause bad intonation
Beveling , the angle at the end of the frets - done with an angled beveling file.
Dressing smoothing off the fret ends after beveling for example.
Refret Tutorial from Freddy Gabrsek (freddysfrets) includes leveling etc.
Recommended books and videos etc would be those by Dan Erlewine via Stewmac
New tools, techniques, and color photos! The updated 2nd edition of the world's most popular fretting instruction manual.
www.stewmac.com
Complete instruction from fret basics like installation and dressing, through complex refrets and fretting for the production shop.
www.stewmac.com
Various StewMac free online resources related to fretting.
https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-i...-guitar-and-instrument-fretting-and-fretwork/
edit: 29 Feb 2024 to correct Youtube link to work with new forum software.