How to Radius a Fret

Video Transcript

"Now there's a tool that allows us to radius a fret so that it matches this. And it's, basically it's a device in which you put the fret, and you roll it kind of like a can opener over a wheel that helps give it a nice even bend. You probably don't have that, but I will assume that you will have bought one of the critical fret radiusing inserts. These inserts are made for fret presses, but they're useful just by themselves. And you can buy them by themselves. Especially for jobs like this where we need to create a radius in this fret, it's too short to actually run through one of the fret radiusing wheel machine. But it's got to be rectified. You can either do it by hand, by bending it over the edge of a table, but that's very imprecise. So the best way to do it is to use one of these fret radius inserts. In order to help make sure that we get this radiused, we can also just grab the fret end with a pair of pliers. Or put it in a vice and gently bend it manually, and then use this to test it to make sure that you're bending it so that it matches. That's what we want. Now we can put this back in, and it will fit into that fretboard because it matches the radius of the fretboard."