One of the best fretting videos ive seen as everything is well explained rather than simply videoing a refret

No Sunday afternoon is complete without you!

I realize it gets tiring to repeat instructions over and over but thanks for doing it. It is helpful (for me) to be reminded when there are so many details involved. As a hobbyist its often months between work on this level and it’s easy to forget the steps and options until you’re standing there with the tool in your hand. There are many resources for instructions out there these days but I like the level of detail, the discussion of related considerations and the speed of your videos so I prefer the twoodfrd way of doing stuff. 👍

I love seeing an old friend come back for more work. I can't imagine this Jr would need anything else.

This series is high quality instruction, not only with the actual philosophy of repairing these machines but also the realities of making a living at this craft. Among the top series of craft on the Tube that costs you only the time you spend up loading to your brain. Best regards.

Another masterclass. Thank you for documenting these repairs for the world. You are a legend and a gentleman.

yay...polishing, polishing time!

One of your best how-to videos yet. And that’s saying something!

MIs en place. A very familiar term to the chefs! Everything in its place. Super important for any project

Laughing heartily at the "fret selection paralysis" comment. We're so crazy. 🤣

Ted, you are a master craftsman sir! Thank you for your consistently excellent videos.

Very informative thanks Ted

Nice work as per usual Ted. I learn so much watching your videos that perhaps I will become a guitar repairman/luthier in my next lifetime.. For the remainder of this one I’ll just enjoy your work. Carry on sir!

That quick cut to the previous headstock felt like it was straight out of the shining 👯‍♀️😂

09:05 OH. MY. GOD. BROTHER YOU JUST CHANGED MY LIFE WITH ONE DIAGRAM. How did I not know this sooner? I have a "jazz" (really it's a "rockabilly") guitar with this exact issue and I spent 70+ hours over the years when it began having this issue trying to get the intonation right and it has jumbo frets and I picked it up and took a look at it AND IT HAS THIS EXACT ISSUE (on a few frets). Solved it in 15 mins with a fret filer I bought 6 years ago and never used. Hot damn...

Not a joke, you are a genius, an example of passion. Not a great life here but your videos are medicine to me and helped to fix things on my "too many" guitars. Thank you!

Hi Ted, probably one of your most fascinating and instructive videos to date - especially for those of us who play and work on electric guitars mainly. I also think - being 20+ years older than you I guess - that because you make your videos look so effortless, it can be easy to ignore the physical as well as mental effort that goes into working on a guitar setup and re-fret especially. As I get older I am noticing how much more tiring certain jobs can be - especially the polishing of frets which is why I now use a Dremmel to finish off the work whereas beforehand I would always go through multiple grits until I got that perfect shine ⭐ Really appreciated the tip about using the fretwire to recentre the curvature of the fretboard. This old dog learned a new trick there 🦮 Thanks again and love all your videos 👍

Expert tuition. Feel there should be some “Mississippi Queen” riffing to play us out tho’ ...

Ted, I appreciate these videos so much! Thank you for sharing your craft!

Again and again total quality and craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing - these videos are addictive. Take care

The encouragement of a craftsman who refuses to cut corners.

Ted I am literally preparing to do my first ever full fret level and dress on a LP I just finished building.....my first LP after several successful tele builds. Can't tell you how great it was to have access to this video at this specific time!!

Thanks for posting. I appreciate all the work you do putting these videos out, really enjoy them

Great video. Thank you.

Excellent video! Tons of great info packed in here. I'll definitely check out your Canadian buddy for tools & whatnot, because I am not paying Stew Mac prices unless I absolutely have to. 👍

Thanks Ted. I was aware of most of this but it’s a great refresher as I have an old Kay to get some new frets in soon.

is it only me or this is one of a kind video? like a "101 - how to refret a guitar like a wise, calm, clever and centered pro". (I'm not a luthier of any sort, I just play guitar but I also enjoy diy)

Another great video, thanks Ted.

Perfect end to a good week❤

Great work and thanx for sharing! The first electric guitar I ever played was a Les Paul jr. way back in 1968! My cousins had found one in a bunch of junk somebody had set out by the road after cleaning out their flooded basement. My uncle cleaned up the jr. and waved a magic wand over the Marshall 18-watt they also pulled out of the pile. We were banished to the pole barn after a few too many poorly and loudly executed attempts at various rock and roll songs of the day.

Great video as always! I’ve had good experience with the Jescar EVO frets you mention. They are very durable.

😎 Maestro, (a.k.a Ted) you’ve done it again! Slow clap, knowing smile, and awe.

You know what...this was really good!!!

Excellent demo and lecture, Ted. A big winner, again!

Excellent job man. As an amateur luthier, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Well done sir

Perfect timing on this one, Ted. Frets have been a big part of this weekend for me. Last night and this morning, I’ve been wrestling with a 2 or three isolated slightly high frets on a Telecaster that I set-up a while back. They’re only under specific strings but not the same string. I’ve already tapped them to make sure they’re set. Was ready to drop the big bucks on a SM Fret Kisser, but they’re out of stock. So I used my engineering brain and made one, using a 4.5” “below string” leveling beam, double stick tape and a strip of 240 emory cloth. I cut a 1” piece and stuck it to the middle of the beam then cut two other short pieces to stick on either end, rough side toward the tape. Works awesome!. Now I just need to touch up the crowns and polish, polish, polish (those spots anyway).

I really like your show.

Great video as always !

A joy to watch Kudos from Brisbane

I have been usuing the fret press and fret bender from ontario. Quality tools at a very fair price.

Another great video! Thanks Ted…!!!

Thanks for a great tutorial! I've been trying to improve my fret work and this is just what I needed! I always enjoy your videos!

excellent stuff like always, you do a really great job at explaining how you think about problems and why you take the approach you do.

Great job! A coup de grace on the fretboard! Excellent episode!

Beautiful beautiful work as always Ted. And I love the way you approach every job in the most economic way ( no unnecessary fret end waste, no need for a brand new nut, …)

The rise and fall of the 3rd fret. An indepth study. Vol. 1 Love it. 🤔🤔🤔😜😜😜🐒🐒🐒😎😎😎

I really love a LPj... A straight forward guitar, small and light and charismatic.

My first decent electric guitar was an accurate black beauty knockoff with miniscule frets. I absolutely loved it.

The diagram about fret height was an eye opener to me. I have an expensive vintage guitar that I just cannot play well, it requiring harder finger pressure even though the action is very low. Now I realise why, thank you.

Another wonderful video Ted, thank you... Always the highlight of my KZfaq viewing week ! I'm collecting a modern Telecaster Elite for a friend from Cambridge, England later today without any strings on it. After watching ALL your videos and armed with some simple tools, I now have the confidence to set it up properly for him. I may even wear one of your T-shirts whilst doing so !! 😉

Love the focussed lesson Ted. More please!!

Perfect timing. I just got all the tools to do my own fretwork and who better to watch and learn than twoodfrd?

I had a 64 sg Jr that was kind of a freless wonder. Super worn frets, but everyone loved the feel.

"Mis en place" Very good Chef.Everything in it's place.👍

Your opening my mind

All anybody ever needs to know in 27 minutes. The man's a jeenyus, I tells ya... 🇬🇧👍

Nice detail on this one, I can watch the same procedure over and over because it "almost" like experience. That guitar is now solid.

Brilliant,very interesting.

Another quality video. I wish there were more 👍😎❤️

Whether you know it or not you truly are the luthiers luthier your voice is calming, and your precision it's unprecedented, I haven't even met you and you are mentor

I can’t hear a difference with stainless steel frets over nickel/copper either. Your work is amazing and I so wish I could develop your level of care and patience.

very interesting, never really understood what all went into a refret thank you for sharing the knowledge i swear this is one of my fave channels to watch when running arps on the guitar... the video was apropos being that is it "gibsunday" and i was playing my tv spec dc thanks again \m/\m/

I use the diamond crowned tool for crowning. Gives the perfect rounded top that intonates great everywhere. I guess free handing can be accurate if you have the right technique and lots of experience. They are costly though. I bought one from japan hoping it would last forever. Medium side is done after 4 or 5 levelings.

Makes sense Les Paul (the man) liked low frets, he was a glissing emeffer.

When I was a younger man I always wanted a guitar with full binding including the neck, until I played it too much and realized I need a refretting and it's gonna be difficult to not only remove the frets without breaking the binding or when you're putting them in as well. No binding on the neck is what I prefer now

I have to admit I didn't quite follow when you (likely adequately, save for my denseness) explained how you got a slight compound radius via leveling.

This is a much needed video thank you ted just finished my evo refret its hard to find now

I've built and fretted quite a few guitars and I learned something from this vid. Tnx,

Nailed it. Great content

Seeing what Mandolin wire looks like, it blows my mind that Lee Sklar uses it. I believe he has it on his Dingwall 5 string w fanned frets too.

As always great info. Thanks. I learn so much from your channel. I was at my local guitar shop the other day and discovered a very crudely built coffin guitar case. inside was what is called a romantic parlor. It was a twelve string built in a Spanish style construction. The sound holes were two hearts. I'm hoping you can identify the maker for me. I believe one like it was purchased in Canada. I found one with google images. Thanks again.

Get hung up on some "shmutz"? LOL. I ordered the channel lock 357's Thanks again. You are my guitar repair hero.

Wow, this was so good that saying it was great just doesn't seem to be descriptive enough. THANKS!

Love this channel. Personally, I find somewhat narrow, taller frets to be best. Not ridiculously tall, but not "fretless" either. More like a "medium" fret wire, not overly low. I have guitars with frets like what I describe, as well as guitars with "jumbo" frets. For my money, the medium/tall are the best compromise re: playability and intonation.

Great sound lives in that one

you should do more in depth videos like this, it was fascinating!

That Fret Gauge! Genius

I've got one guitar that has extra jumbo stainless frets. I genuinely like how they play and how the guitar sounds, but I'm not fully on the snake oil train in thinking that every guitar should have them installed.

Thank you for your therapy beyond belief 👊

I always learn something useful here., except things about carburetors. They're still a mystery.

If you have nickel frets, use nickel strings. Your frets will last longer than if you use ss strings. It took me many years to figure that out.

You're the man, Ted!

Nice job

13:10 Work hardening does indeed happen the more you "roll" a surface, but ... i have to wonder if 3 pointing it is enough. I think you'd get far better results if you (can) start with a tall shaped fret and then using a jig (something that loosely supports the T's flanges) pass the top surface with a hand held roller that slightly deforms the crown, pushing the metal as it goes. It would have to be a custom roller that conforms to the shape just slightly off. ALSO, very important. It would have to be polished and of a hard metal. I do this all the time (not specifically this) with old scissors i fix. I have an "awl" that's made out of stainless steel, that's been polished to perfection (looks straight out of a Escher painting, but as a thick "awl" of 15 mm thickness tapering to 5 towards the tip). I pass it over the surface of old scissors that have (or where i have removed) lost their nickel plating. I could plate them, but it's not worth the hassle of masking the cutting surfaces so i use this method to harden the surface of the metal. It never rusts after and doesn't ding anymore. I've some that i've done with this method for at least 8 years now that have been sitting in my semi-opened porch and haven't even so much as dulled. So there's truth to what Mr. Erlewine said, but i think that you need a bit more than just 3 pointing. Of course, it's entirely possible that they have some sort of roller that 4 or 5 points the wire. And if that machine puts pressure between two rollers, squashing the T, then it would work. jm2c

I have that fret press and fret bender and concur that they are quality and very reasonable.

Stay safe and we'll see you next week.

That fret clamp must be my favorite thing on these videos. It always hurts my head, when they show professional (luthiers or factory people) hammer frets in with a brass mallet and "Oops, dent..." :)

"Carefully labeled for just such an occasion."- Foghorn Tedhorn 😆

Thanks a lot, this one provided me some very welcome info 👍👍

I've found that I can fret a 22 fret neck with 2 lengths of wire by cutting it close, and cutting a length for every other fret. I can just squeeze 11 frets out of 1 length, skipping 1 fret for each one cut. I repeat for the remaining 11 frets, and much less waste.

Your the Boss Ted! Awesome video. I have an old guitar from the early 60's. It's a parlor, with no name inside. Its plywood and nothing in the sound hole. It belonged to my grandmother. It's got an FG5 on the back of the headstock and the front says Steel Reinforced neck in a triangle sticker. It plays very well but the actin is over 1/4 " high I borrowed the floating bridge and trapeze tail piece from another guitar. I think I may refret it to straighten the neck. It would be a great player. It looks like it has brass frets, but the fingerboard looks like rosewood. No radius, totally flat board.

Out of sheer laziness I discovered that I much prefer flat top, wide low frets much more than an actual crown. Strange because I can hear tuning and intonation discrepencies within a cent or two but I don't seem to have those issues with flat top frets. I'm also an electrician so I prefer the lower frets with #11 strings or else my grip will put everything sharp. Fun stuff.

Cheer up mate. Don’t fret.

so ice to see the other half of the video. Great job. You have some skills. You can see all the love you put in your work. I have a LP myself and love the instrument. Gibson made a winner with the Les Paul. Bye... see you later. Bert from the Netherlands

It's always a pleasure watching your video's. I can't even believe that I find this content so interesting.

I really like that guitar it is so cool.

@twoodfrd, on the subject of your flush cut nippers: I believe if you wear out any Stew Mac tools during normal use, they will replace them from what I understand. Of course, I've been wrong before.

Outstanding tutorial.

Did he just wrap this video up with Judas Priest's Living After Midnight?! Ted, you never cease to amaze!!!

That was educational. Gracious!