The Fret Care Flow

Step-by-Step How To Guide to Eliminate Fret Buzz

Welcome to the Fret Care Flow Tool. This tool will help guide you to properly eliminate fret buzz.

Fret Care Flow

Setup Guitar

Before evaluating your frets for fret buzz or uneven frets you MUST setup your Guitar first. Use MusicNomad's Keep It Simple Setup (KISS)™ precision gauges and tools combined with step-by-step guidelines anyone can follow to setup their guitar to play and sound great.

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Please make sure to play every note before continuing.

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Play Every Note

Has Fret Buzz

4 Or More Individual Buzzing Frets

3 or Less Individual Buzzing Frets

Even Buzz On Every Fret

Raise Action

Evaluate & Diagnose Frets

Diagnose High Frets

Diagnose Low Frets

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Raise Frets

We recommend going to a qualified luthier to raise your low frets that are causing fret buzz. It is normal to raise your frets slightly above the other frets resulting in raised frets being high. After they are raised you can continue on with the fret care flow.

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Diagnose High Frets

Perform Full Fret Level

Perform Individual Fret Level

Crown Frets

Polish Frets

Has No Fret Buzz

Nice work! Rock on!

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