A FREE Fret Rocker!? Guitar Goomba Ep0007

[@poey2811]

Wow this is really resourceful and interesting I'd never think of something like this

[@GuitarGoomba]

Alec Steele always says, "Need a tool? Make a tool." I embrace that philosophy.

[@poey2811]

@@GuitarGoomba that's a really good outlook man

[@spaz4774]

Enjoy learning practical skills and tips. This was a smart use of resources.

[@GuitarGoomba]

Thank you.

[@davidcastle3292]

Gonna make one tomorrow

[@GuitarGoomba]

Let me know how it turns out.

[@TheKaameleon]

Great idea for making a useful tool from leftover material you have on hand. Looking forward to seeing the next steps on the guitar itself.

[@GuitarGoomba]

Thank you. I always prefer to reuse stuff I have lying around whenever possible.

[@MStone-im1mu]

Another great DIY! I'm happy to see someone showing how to make these items at home.

[@GuitarGoomba]

And I'm happy to have the appreciation. Plus, you are racking up the giveaway entries! ;-D

[@heymishy5245]

I’m going to show this videos to my future husband lol, maybe we can have dozens of handmade guitars, I believe they are the coolest, because people put feelings, memories or whatever they want on them and are really unique!!

[@GuitarGoomba]

I couldn't agree more.

[@garrettodonnell4177]

Didn't even know what a fret rocker was called until this video but again I'm a bodies and electronics kind of guy and guitar necks are like the engines of an airliner - an engineering feat unto themselves. Good info and I look forward to putting it into use as my own projects get more complicated.

[@GuitarGoomba]

I look forward to seeing the results of your efforts.

[@crmartin1]

Great DIY Video. Thank-you

[@GuitarGoomba]

And that you for your continued viewership.

[@tawnixmia]

Such a great idea!

[@GuitarGoomba]

They say necessity is the mother of invention. Then poverty must be its father.

[@jasoneshelman8746]

Great tip

[@GuitarGoomba]

Thanks.

[@brucebrowning5270]

Add a strip of sandpaper to your straight edge to prevent movement.

[@greggraffeo4951]

Totally loving this series of diy videos!!! Lucky makes it look so easy.

[@GuitarGoomba]

It is easy, it just takes patience.

[@fuktifino]

Free is good

[@GuitarGoomba]

A buddy of mine always says, "If it's for free, it's for me."

[@jpement]

Very handy!

[@GuitarGoomba]

Extremely useful, and the price is right.

[@respondersfirst3364]

This seems easy enough.

[@GuitarGoomba]

It really is.

[@davidadams9578]

Guitar is looking good, now I just need to win it, learn to play, then go book some stage time at the blues clubs up in Memphis lol

[@GuitarGoomba]

Sounds like a plan.

[@meljones2074]

Learn something new everyday

[@GuitarGoomba]

That is the goal.

[@104customs5]

And now I have to make one of these!

[@ArkRed1]

I use the new blade from a wood plane. It's thick and straight.

[@calebmikesell4021]

How are you doing

[@GuitarGoomba]

I am fine. How are you?

[@zgoume]

Nice trick too! I have a scrad piece of ABS sheet and when I leveled my frets, I had some issues with frets that were much higher than others... this would have helped me clearly identified the issue!

[@GuitarGoomba]

Free and easy, just how I like my women. LOL

[@therifflair724]

Would a new razor blade itself not work also?

[@geekymetalhead4982]

That’s cool

[@robertpatterson5099]

Another great video goomba have you tried Wish for the fret guards they are made from stainless steel free just pay shipping same for the fret rocker.KR.BobbyP 👍🎸

[@GuitarGoomba]

No kidding? That is cool, I will have to check it out. It would be killer to have that option for my viewers that don't have these tools already.

[@bmfilmnut]

With all due respect, based on what you showed here, I wouldn't even think of using your fret rocker. Why? Because the edges have to be perfectly flat. There's another video kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGHIdI15hLeJocU showing how metal fret rockers from cheap to very expensive are almost all not perfectly flat and the guy who made the video tells about how using them screwed up the frets on jobs he did so much so that he ended up having to re-fret two guitars. If an expensive stainless steel Stemac fret rocker doesn't even have flat edges, yours certainly doesn't. Amazinging, he bought a pile of fret rockers and threw most of them away because the edges weren't perfectly flat when he easily dould have lapped them to perfect flatness. That said, you just mentioned sanding the edges but you didn't show how you did it. Just rubbing sandpaper on the edges would not make them straight. What you should do is place very fine sandpaper on a perfectly flat surface such as glass or granite and lapping the edges to perfect flatness. You left out that step which is absolutely necessary and it's the critical step in making or fixing even a new metal fret rocker. Beyond that, I would never cut the fret rocker out with a jig saw (actually a scroll saw). If you just sanded the edges of your fret rocker, I can almost guarantee that using it will mess up the frets on a guitar. And I would NEVER make a fret rocker out of anything but stainless steel.

[@gigabrad4570]

what If i sanded the sides with high grit belt sander?

[@Generatingmoments]

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