Dude, this does it, you need your own show. Talk about instruments, gear, accessories, whatever. You love the camera and the camera loves you. Thomann, you got your spokesperson right here.

I love Chris's riffs! As a beginner it's fun to learn the simple and cool riffs he does!

Good summary. A lot depends on the player. I don't play "aggressive" music, but do play with a pretty heavy hand, and play everyday. Because of that, I tend to get dents in my frets under the strings. I tried out stainless steel, and love it. I didn't detect a change in tone - no more than putting on a fresh set of strings, and am happy I won't need to crown or refret anytime in the near future.

Yeah I fretted my Stratocaster with stainless steel frets 2019..absolutely crazy material to work with lol.. I haven’t regretted..but just be prepared for extra hard work if you wanna jump into it...great video btw 🎸🤘

EVH said he couldnt hear a difference in tone using ss frets ... that's good enough for me !!

Love the trailer! Thanks for the fret-breakdown.

Definitely getting some EVO gold frets, thanks!

Dude your vids are the BEST! Thanks so much for putting out this fantastic content.

I am doing a deep dive on this topic. Great info thankyou!

Nicely explained several questions I had

excellent information, very well stated...

SS fret wire is great if you love low action shredding, the crown practically never wears away and you’ll have always have super low action, although I can grind through frets really fast with my heavy hand. Sounds is admittedly better (warmer, more midrange, less “plinky”) with NS fretwire although I play with lots of gain. As for luthiers having their tools destroyed - it’s true for low quality tools. I’ve been using Stewmac tools and they are holding up extremely well.

Once again a magnificent Thomann show..by the way love Julia..wanted to let you know I bought a Harley Benton Tele and I love it..hope to buy more and work for Thomann..lol

Nice job. Thanks!

the most charismatic guitar guy on YT! we need a translation for the end part!!

Fantastic stuff thanks!!!

The EVO gold frets are going to be the stuff I will use when my old Flatiron mando needs a refret job. I think the stuff from StewMac is good for a long time. Depends on how long I live.

LIKE ALL THE TECH VIDEOS U DO THANX MAN

That’s a great guitar tone.

Thank you! ❤I enjoy nickel

Very informative

Learned a lot today! Thanks man! Now I'd like me some of them evil goat frets 😂😂

Thanks!!!

In a word, yes. Stainless steel are better. I own 8 guitars, I got my first with stainless 2 months ago. It's superb and so nice for bends.

Thank you for your video, interesting as always! A curiosity: when I purchased my Stingray Special bass (which has got SS frets), someone from the shop also told me that they're indeed sturdier, but when combined with hardwood there's a chance they can "pop out" (especially when shipped), causing uneven frets issues. Sounded like bollocks to justify a faulty instrument, but I'm curious on what's your opinion here :)

I've made about a hundred of refrets, and I often ask my clients about sound change after refret to steel, and mostly there are no changes in sound. I think if sound changes, it changes not because of fret material, but because of fret size and installation method, and obviously because of player's change in feel of neck.

I WAS hoping to hear some sound samples for fret material differences. But video was good up till that anyway. EVO sounds like a great option but stainless is still my next neck fret material because it’s easy to find.

The Wolbarocsine, the mutant with frets in his hands from the professor Benton's Institute of young gifted musicians ;)

I’ve been a musician all my life, but guitar just under two years. Basically, I bought a cheap ‘beginner’ Stratocaster in a thrift shop, and have been modifying since day one, so now it’s actually an awesome, one of a kind Stratocaster. Besides the truss rod needing replacement, I recently discovered that my frets are worn down. That’s in addition to me making the holes bigger and adding holes to the headstock-and everywhere else on the guitar-to accommodate upgrades and mods. So instead of refretting, I’m getting a new neck, and I was worried about exactly this: what if I get the wrong frets? Should I go steel or nickel? Medium jumbo or steel? Johnny Walker or Glenfiddich? So now I watched a few videos about frets, and it seems it’s nothing to fret about, but knowledge is power. I’m going to get a basic, standard Stratocaster neck and not worry about the little, narrow, tall, jumbo or otherwise stuff.

To say there is an audible difference between stainless & nickel frets when there’s usually two types of metal in the strings alone..not including bridge & saddle metal is a bit of a stretchhh. Of course guitar makers don’t want to use them if they cost more & wear out their tools faster.

I've been playing for years. Noticed a big difference between nickel and ss also the lack of rosewood makes it very shrilly. Good think I have old guitars and I'm not bothered about refretting.

Oh yess Drop test Someone have seen Paul Reed Smith dropping nuts

I like to have the gold frets to go with the gold tuners..😁

Great

Kris, what about frets and strings materials compatibility? Is there any preferred combinations?

EVO Golds are the way to go, unless you really need SS. IMO

6105 🤘💯

I need those evil gold frets for metal 🔥🔥🤘😈🤘🔥🔥

What about Warwick’s Bronze frets? Is bronze another term for brass, or are they different than brass?

Hello friend. Please tell me, I want to replace frets instead of nickel silver to put jescar evo gold. Guitar acoustics Taylor, I'm afraid to aggravate the sound, they say a lot of high overtones will appear on the Internet, and there are plenty of them on my guitar. I want bronze ones because they don't wear out, but I'm worried that the sound will spoil. Is it possible to put jescar evo gold on Taylor? They don't put them in their factory, so I doubt it.

Hey dude, nice video, i just want to ask you about refreting, i have prs se custom 24 and yamaha pacifica and they have a really small frets, i want to put extra jumbo frets on them, so can i replace them with stailess steel extra jumbo jescar frets or to go with the same size of fret wire? Thanks.

Hi, Kris! I have Dunlop 6105 nickel frets on my CS Strat..I play a lot and the frets really show abuse..If I decide to refret it one day with SS frets: should I put the same size or even bigger (6100)? I like SS frets on my Suhr Alt t pro, but they look smaller than 6105. I use the same strings on both guitars (elixier optiweb 10 - 52) and I can say suhr plays faster and its easier to bend. My strat sounds warm and woody, maybe SS frets would add just a bit zing to the sound, which would maybe help it to cut better through the mix? Kris, Jescar frets are made in germany? should I consider them? Thanks and stay safe!

Can you make a video on playing guitar with nickel allergy?

Hello. Would 6100 would fit a Les Paul ? I hate small fret even I play blues and classic rock !!!!

i know this is a year old video but im interested in ordering a sire L7 and to have the plek and refretting option added to it would it be possible to get it refretted with evo gold frets ?

I've just bought your TE 70 Telecaster but the bass E string is very buzzy down to the 7th fret. I cant see how to lift the action at the bridge. Can you help?

Do they ever use titanium guitar frets ? For a Fender Stratocaster.

I'm 75 years old and don't play any heavy metal. I do play pretty much everything else and have always hassled with wearing out my frets.

Anybody that ever played the electric guitar a few hours a day for a few years, and happens to use stainless steel strings, knows that the softer frets wear out too damn fast... it doesn’t matter how good your technique and/or setup are... either that or Fender screwed me in ‘92 with a quite pricey Strat. As far as I know, those frets were allegedly nickel silver. Caveat Emptor !!

Lololoooool 😅🌊🌊🌊 👏👏👏👏👍 Cooles video, aber der testride war bisschen kurz doctor evil 😅 🐈

Would you recommend to to plek your guitar after doing a DIY refret?

I’d pick stainless every time. The tone difference is extremely minimal.

You forgot about Bell bronze frets like they use on a lot of Warwick bass guitars and framus

It could be neither too much harder, nor softer, in order for the metal interactions to not be too damaging. Also, stainlessness.

I agree with Friedman...I have played on stage for over 40 years and I currently have four guitars that I use exclusively for stage. One time years ago I purchased a Warmoth neck and got stainless steel frets on it because many of the people I new raved about how great they were, and honestly I grew weary of the cost of re-honing and re-fretting my necks every six months at a cost of $300.00 a pop (I was practicing everyday and playing on stage every weekend). The idea of never having to get a re-fret again really appealed to me. I was so excited when I got what I thought was going to be a great upgrade for my strat. The neck itself looked great and Warmoth did a wonderful job on the neck shape and fretwork. But sadly, buying this neck with the stainless steel frets was a huge mistake...not only did it change the sound of my guitar but also the way it felt when I played it. I spent the next four or five years switching this neck on to other strats bodies in hopes that one of them would sound decent, but it never did. The $469.99 albatross neck now hangs on a wall as a costly reminder. Take my advice and just keep the nickel/silver frets on your guitar and if need be, just change the size of the frets. Just my 2 cents worth. Peace.

I just noticed that my 30-year-old Warwick Fortress has got brass frets. Weird. And yes, they have acquired significant grooves from my roundwound strings (although I almost never bend). They are still perfectly serviceable, though.

I've never been a fan of very large or steel frets. I find them to be just too harsh, and I don't like their tonalities. Too bright. I also like very low action because I play extremely fast. If I want more brightness or less I can adjust it easier by getting a different make of strings, or change my picking style, which is always evolving. I find the warmth of smaller frets can't be beat. I want all the natural wood resonance I can get.

Evilll Golllld! 😂🤘

love your videos chris! but man if you're paying close to 2k € you want your guitar to have stainless steel, I'm saving up to buy an E-II and it doesn't come with stainless steel but im gonna buy it anyway because I want it so bad! still a bummer tho...

any advice for replacing one fret on a strat?

"What are you going to do? Scratch it with your claws??" 😂

I have a guitar with stainless steel frets and it seems to make the hammer-on notes come out louder. Anybody else notice this?

Every luthier I have spoken to say the difference in tone between nickel and SS is practically non-existent. The difference in price to refret with SS is no more than one hundred dollars in many cases.

What is best for refretting an acoustic?

Once you bend on jumbo stainless steel frets, it's hard to go back.

Ideas ok,,, I am interested in modding guitars to give them 36 stainless steel jumbo frets.

Can someone explain to me something I have always wondered: Yngwie Malmsteen has always used big jumbo frets on his guitars, even tho the frets are scalloped. Why is this? Isnt this just unnecessary and pointless? Even having a negative impact on the tone?

brASS frets hahaah love those types of videos

fretless guitar is the solution???

Wolverine Barocsi ? Adamantium frets? I bet those would be a nightmare to level and crown 🤣.

Is there an easy way to tell which frets are on my instrument, if it is nickel silver or stainless steel?

If stainless steel frets last longer then you don't need to worry about asking a Luthier to do a fret job right?

How about glass?

Wrong = Friedman NoHo 24 all have stainless steel frets. Suhr, Musicman, Tom Anderson, LSL…. Have also a custom shop Stratocaster refretted with stainless steel frets and it sounds the same

Evil gold 6100 please

My first ever refret was stainless steel frets. With cheap and d.i.y tools around it was a fucking nightmare and almost regret doing this shit.

04:30 Stainless steel frets are not the hardest, titanium ones are way harder.

Had SS frets and immediately removed them. Made my Telecaster sound too different from Nickel frets and not for the better.

I simply hate working on SS frets!

Short answer: yes. Long answer: yeeeeeeessssss

EVH said there is no tone difference with stainless steel frets. So there it is, there is no tone differences. Fin

What it looks like to me from reading about this across the internet is there are a lot of collectors who are terrified of their investments depreciating in any capacity.

I’m getting my strat regretted, I’m torn between 6105 or 6100 frets..

i think the talk about ss frets sounding different or even worse is dumb. even if they did, it’s the difference between turning a knob on your amp by a tiny bit.

Als Alt-Germane kann ich zwar Englisch aber kann Thomann auch deutsch?

People think they can hear a difference and so they "hear" a difference. They're basically just psyching themselves out. That's it.

Couldn’t hear the guitar through the DSP

Stop saying that stainless steel destroys tools. That's only true if you start a fret job without planning and careful measurement, and then fail to take a patient approach to the job. The only tool that should see significant wear from the process is your elbow. Measure the distance across each fret slot, then mark that distance on the fretwire + .5mm on each side*, and then either snip or rotodisk the excess off. Remove 1mm of the tang from each side if you want to (very easy with a Dremmel). When the frets are pressed or hammered in, the extra fret material will result in the ends of each fret being just slightly cantilevered over the fretboard edge. It's a minimal amount that a proper file can tackle with ease. *for smaller vintage radii fretboards, leave 1mm per side

I keep hearing about how bright sounding stainless frets are....sorry but I think that that's bullshit based on the theory of the metal being harder rather than really hearing the difference. I have made many tests in this area and I'll bet most people would never hear the difference especially people playing high gain stuff. I've been a luthier for over 40 years as well as a live sound engineer and by the way I can still hear 15k. Hear with your ears not your mind!

Why should I care about refretting stainless frets ? Has anybody here done ever a refret job of stainless frets ? That's why mid priced guitars should have stainless frets - not to talk of those up-to 500 EUR guitars.

Stainless steel should be standard on all guitars, acoustic or electric.

I don't like Mondays - and Stainless Steel Fretchens.

Stainless steel isn't better when you want rusty frets...

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jM97pKd41Jqtnpc.html

The tool thing with stainless steel frets is bull crap. I've been using the same tools for years and all I use is stainless frets. Get some big #4 wire cutters....then use a dremel to fine tune the nip and shorten them.. The only thing that takes longer is leveling....You're dealing with files and sand paper....a leveling file takes them down quickly. (You don't need the file more then 15 minutes) Sandpaper is cheap. Screw you luthiars, you're liars about the difficulty and expense.

If the neck is too stiff, I think it's best to have a girl do it 😏

You can speak more slowly, I write!

Stainless steel frets are not "brighter." What a load of shit. They sound exactly like polished regular frets, except they stay that way. There is no excuse to use nickel silver frets unless you like scratched and dented frets after moderate playing.

Don't buy from Thomann if you're in the UK. Deliveries are delayed "due to Brexit related disruption" and you have to pay import taxes which surprisingly makes prices no cheaper than the UK. I suggest if Thomann want to sell to the UK they get their act together and sort out prices and shipping!