Baroque Fret Erasers 180 & 400 & 1000 Grits, Guitar Fret Polishing Abrasive Rubber Blocks, Set of 3 Grits

I purchased a travel guitar that had a good deal of "fret sprout" - the poor little guy sat in a box for 3 years and dried out the rosewood, and playing it felt like the mfg. bought the frets from the Ginsu Fret Company - they would actually cut your fingers! These "erasers" were super helpful in smoothing down the sprout and polishing the frets (I used a file also, to fix the big issues first). I also used them on my other guitars and my wife's mandolin, and they performed great. They really clean up the frets well, and make them silky smooth again.

These are absolutely great! They bring your frets back to life with very little effort.

I needed to clean up a VERY worn-out fretboard (Fender Jazz bass guitar). I don't do this for a living, so no need to spend twice as much for a "professional" set of fret erasers. The photos show the severe wear on the "before" view. I protected the fret board with carefully-applied tape, then worked over each fret starting with the 180 grit, followed by the 400, then finished up with the 1000 to get a nice shine. The frets are not perfect now, but many times better than before. I didn't get overly aggressive since removing the dents completely would cause too much reduction in fret height. I used the square edges of the erasers to get down into the joint where the fret meets the fret-board, and this resulted in rounding off the eraser corners quite a bit, so they won't be as useful next time. Which, for me, may be never.

I am very happy with these fret erasers. They are easy to use and they make quick work of cleaning and polishing frets. I am no luthier, but as a working musician and private instructor, I do a lot of setups for myself and my students. After over ten of my own projects, a buddy borrowed these erasers. He liked them so much, he bought a set of his own. I like them and recommend buying them.

I decided to try these out on an old T. Haruo Model 80 acoustic guitar that I had bought back in the 1970s. I leveled the frets first and then crowned them with a fret crowning file that I'd also just bought. When I was done crowning the frets, I used the coarser fret eraser on them. Without taking the trouble to look it up, I think the grits on the erasers are 180, 400 and 1000. The 180 grit does a very nice and quick job on the frets. I didn't notice too much more improvement with the 400 grit. Of course, there was some improvement, but the improvement from crowning the frets with a file and then to polishing them with the 180 grit eraser was the biggest and quickest improvement. In fact, you could probably get by with the 180 grit eraser alone. I didn't care too much about the guitar. I hadn't played it in decades. I didn't care if I ruined it. However, I found out that I was able to do a perfect job on the frets without even touching the fingerboard. Don't do this, though! I had a box full of various Martin acoustic strings, so I went ahead and strung up the guitar. Surprisingly, the guitar sounds beautiful. The workmanship, if you look close, is no where near the quality of a Martin guitar, but the sound is probably as good as an upper end Martin, surprisingly. I know because I also have a Martin HD-28 acoustic guitar. The T. Haruo guitars, like many other guitars, were styled after the Martin guitars, especially the Martin Dreadnought guitars. The Dreadnoughts are the largest or "jumbo" Martin guitars. Anyway, if you are going to use the fret erasers, you probably care about your guitar or you wouldn't be taking the trouble to polish the frets. In that case, I'd suggest using masking tape between all the frets that you are working on. You can buy different widths of masking tape. You'll need a narrow width for the higher frets, so it's best to buy one roll of wide width and one roll of narrow width tape. I doubt very much that the fret erasers are going to hurt your frets, but the 180 grit will brighten the dirtiest and nastiest frets very quickly, for starters. If you want to spend enough time, you can bring the frets up to a pretty good shine using the other erasers.

works great for fret polishing

You'll be satisfied if your expectations are modest. They polish the frets, but no better or faster than alternative methods that are far less expensive. I won't repurchase this item.

Very simple to use. Have never dressed frets before and the frets on the used kids guitar I came across looked and felt like they had been leveled with a belt sander. Taped them off. Got the initial roughness out with some 200 grit sandpaper and then moved into these. they worked great with minimal effort and left the frets very smooth and shiny. I didn't find them awkward at all.

Handy grit erasers for cleaning guitar frets works as expected.

Great product ! A bit smaller than I thought the pieces would be , overall though they do what they are meant to do .

Overpriced but good

work great

Works great for quick spot polishes of frets. Arrived on time and in good order