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Stewmac Fret Rocker
« on: August 01, 2009, 08:51:11 PM »
Just took delivery of one of these this morning.

Very glad I did.  I've tried levelling the frets on my Tele before, and I thought that I'd done an OK job.  However, checking with the fret rocker showed up LOADS of errors on my part!!!

Everything much better now.  A level Tele is a happy Tele...

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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2009, 10:03:59 PM »
Worth it's weight in gold to me!- use it every day
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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2009, 10:27:56 PM »
This?

Sounds good, I haven't seen it before.
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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2009, 08:58:50 AM »
This?

Sounds good, I haven't seen it before.

That's the fella, PQ.  It's a very study little thing, very useful - need to be less of a clumsy oaf than me though, 'cos I managed to stab the pointy end into the back of my tele headstock! :shock:

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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2009, 10:41:51 AM »
I was thinking it looked a bit pointier than maybe it should be!  :lol:

Just watched the video - and now after all the years I've been reading Dan Erlewine's books and columns, I've learned that his name is pronounced Early-wine!  :o
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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2009, 10:43:52 AM »
I managed to stab the pointy end into the back of my tele headstock!

:lol: That's just the sort of @rse thing I manage to do - soo glad I'm not alone... :D

(luckily, I'm not too precious about the state of my guitars, otherwise I'd always be beating myself up)
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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2009, 01:30:35 AM »
I fancy getting one of these, perhaps as part of the Essential Fretting Toolkit.

Incidentally a couple of months ago I was also thinking of getting the Basic Set Up kit, but I noticed that the string gauge (available separately as metric) was only offered in the kit as imperial. I emailed StewMac about this, asking if they could do a metric kit and guess what?


No reply.

It seems it was a good idea though as they now have a metric kit. It would have been nice if they'd bothered to get back to me  :shock:
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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2009, 08:50:43 AM »
they obviously took what you were saying on board though.  i am surprised tehy didnt get back to you - they have the best customer service ever.  sometimes i hope they get my order wrong

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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2009, 11:33:06 AM »
I got the setup kit, fretting kit and nut kit.

Great stuff.

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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2009, 09:00:38 PM »
I want the kit.

My problem (as those who remember any of my posts may well know) is that I'm such a tight-wad that I baulk at the one off cost, so I end up getting bits and bobs over time, costing myself significantly more, generally...

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Re: Stewmac Fret Rocker
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 04:53:08 PM »
they obviously took what you were saying on board though.  i am surprised tehy didnt get back to you - they have the best customer service ever.  sometimes i hope they get my order wrong

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