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Essential for fretwork!
If you've ever ruined a fretboard, because you didn't want to go through he hassle of taping everything off, this is for you. I bought this for a friend, because he taped off his fretboard with the wrong kind of masking tape. He used the old style tan colored masking tape, on a maple vintage Fender fretboard, to polish out a few dings he got on the frets. By the time I got over to his place, the tape had been sitting on the fretboard for at least 30 minutes. When he went to remove the tape, all of the old nitro came off with it. Not cool at all. Now I'm refinishing the whole darn neck for him and a new set of frets. Next time he needs to steel wool his frets and polish them up a bit, he can slap one of these down and get right to work without worrying about whether the new nitro will come off (it won't, but still....) or whether or not he will get fret dust ground into the maple.
For Pros: I guess the best I can say is that it saves you so much time. Taping off is a pain. Also the cost of these are so affordable, I bought myself another one for myself.
Cons: really? I can't think of any. Can you?
It's a great time and money saving tool that is essential for any kind of fret work.
For Pros: I guess the best I can say is that it saves you so much time. Taping off is a pain. Also the cost of these are so affordable, I bought myself another one for myself.
Cons: really? I can't think of any. Can you?
It's a great time and money saving tool that is essential for any kind of fret work.
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M
Fret polishing without damaging fretboard
Great tool for doing fretwork without damaging your guitars fretboard. Material is good quality and flexible so it can be used in every fretboard radius.
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DR
100% Bang on for the Bucks. But still can be improved 100%
For over 20 years I have cut slots from stiff card or plastic which I secure to the fret board with sellotape. So these inexpensive machined Fingerboard Savers from Rockbag are a No Brainer 100% bang on for the few bucks that they cost, just for the mental savers alone!
However I find that the Elastic-bands are stretching it. The metal moves to easy, and been elastic the bands spring back and even off. Tape is far more secure, but even better is my suggestion to Rockbag. This needs a bit of out of the box thinking.
The savers need to connect to the FILE & not to the Fingerboard.
The slots in the savers align perfect to the Thomann Fret File that I bought along with them. The savers would need to be made longer to allow for forward and back filing strokes. Securing a Saver to the file is made even more simple with this addition to length. Various designed immediately spring to mind to secure the saver to the file. My first one being two side panel are machined on to and running parallel along each side of the slot of the saver. These would hug the file on each side so the hight of these sides would only need to be to half with of the file but could be the full with of standard files. Then over the top of the file, the none filling side! the saver is easily secured in various ways. Even elastic bands can be used now by slot cut out from the tops of the side panels, or metal clasps could be machined two. The change in cost of production is minimal, but the result is a Real Guitar Luthiers tool. Now you just pick up and file with The all NEW ROCKBAG DAVO ROCK CO DESIGNED FILE ALIGNED SAVERS. Oh and of course the new range of RockBag Davo Rock Saver Files! Machined to the highest speck. Luthier Files made specially for the Job!
DAVO ROCK
However I find that the Elastic-bands are stretching it. The metal moves to easy, and been elastic the bands spring back and even off. Tape is far more secure, but even better is my suggestion to Rockbag. This needs a bit of out of the box thinking.
The savers need to connect to the FILE & not to the Fingerboard.
The slots in the savers align perfect to the Thomann Fret File that I bought along with them. The savers would need to be made longer to allow for forward and back filing strokes. Securing a Saver to the file is made even more simple with this addition to length. Various designed immediately spring to mind to secure the saver to the file. My first one being two side panel are machined on to and running parallel along each side of the slot of the saver. These would hug the file on each side so the hight of these sides would only need to be to half with of the file but could be the full with of standard files. Then over the top of the file, the none filling side! the saver is easily secured in various ways. Even elastic bands can be used now by slot cut out from the tops of the side panels, or metal clasps could be machined two. The change in cost of production is minimal, but the result is a Real Guitar Luthiers tool. Now you just pick up and file with The all NEW ROCKBAG DAVO ROCK CO DESIGNED FILE ALIGNED SAVERS. Oh and of course the new range of RockBag Davo Rock Saver Files! Machined to the highest speck. Luthier Files made specially for the Job!
DAVO ROCK
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It just works
It masks your fretboard, it just works. Would use again
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A
Helps you get the job done perfectly
Good quality with clean and well cut slots for the frets. use this when polishing frets using a fret rubber, and the metal protects teh fingerboard from overenthusiastic polishing.
Personally, I don't use the eleastic bands (too fiddly) and just hold the Saver in place with my free hand. Very happy with this purchase and would happily buy again if needed.
Personally, I don't use the eleastic bands (too fiddly) and just hold the Saver in place with my free hand. Very happy with this purchase and would happily buy again if needed.
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Saver for a best price
Works perfectly on jumbo frets you can also use on other frets but there is a gap but will work. You can polish/level your frets everyday without scratching your pretty fretboard.
Pros:
Works as it says
Saves time specially on polishing
Will save your fretboard very well
Works the job
Worth a lot for a small money
Cons:
A bit tricky on higher frets but it works for me still
Recommended, highly specially on scratchy frets. You must try it now .even biggener guitarist can do it.
Pros:
Works as it says
Saves time specially on polishing
Will save your fretboard very well
Works the job
Worth a lot for a small money
Cons:
A bit tricky on higher frets but it works for me still
Recommended, highly specially on scratchy frets. You must try it now .even biggener guitarist can do it.
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Does what it's supposed to
Run of the mill fretsavers, allows for fine fretwork without worrying about damaging your fretboard.
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JH
Good and solid
Good fingerboard saver, the rubber band holds it in place without bending it, despite being thin. Extremely useful tool to clean frets. Make sure to get the ones of the right side to make the most out of it.
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M
Pretty good fingerboard savers!
So far they do their job.
Rubbers are not that strong, but you can replace them anytime with a regular money rubber bands.
Rubbers are not that strong, but you can replace them anytime with a regular money rubber bands.
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TJ
Works perfectly
Fits perfectly over the XJ frets on my LTD
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