1995 Musicman Stingray Refret and Setup 

Thanks Luigi!

Thanks mate!

Thanks mate!

it is!

I do it only if required by my costumers. Make the frets more shiny doesn't make them sound better or smoother. It's just an extra step with only aestethic purpose. They are simply shiny-er!

@@AndrewsGuitarShop The smoother the surface, the less frictional force and the greater the sliding of the string along the fret and the easier it is to make string bending - it's just simple physics.

⁠​⁠@@alexzaytsevguitaryeah exactly. A surface doesn’t need to be shiny like a mirror to be super smooth. Anyway the fret you see in this video have gone through 1000 grit, 1500 grit and 2000 grit. polishing with a buffer is simply another step of abrasive, only it’s not paper but paste. Sandpaper can go way higher in grit than this and make the fret smother than a buffer. That’s it. Yet you didn’t ask about grit but only about buffing, like if the buffer is the only thing that can make some sort of “mambo jambo” to the fretboard. The same phiysics you advocate for is the same that will start to wear out your beautiful shiny frets since the first chords you play after doing a fret job. The will still look shiny, yeah, because 95% of their surface is not touched by the strings but in the point of contact you are gonna loose your beloved shine as fast as fuck. Hence why I don’t usually do it. Again, the frets are already super smooth and shiny after 2000 grit. You want more shine? No problem with it, at all. I can do it no problem, I have big buffer, medium buffer, dremel buffer and every polish paste a Luthier can dream of, but don’t come here to tell me that “it’s simple physics”. Nobody in the known universe could recognise a well polished fretboard at 1500, even 1000 grit from a buffed one just by playing on it without seeing it. Anyway thanks for the comment mate, I really appreciate it!