We’ll Check Your Frets For FREE!
Fret wear sneaks up on you. Your guitar still plays, so you keep playing. By the time the buzzing or poor playability becomes impossible to ignore, you may need a $150 level and crown—or worse, a $400+ refret.
Here’s why catching wear early matters.
With new, smoothly rounded frets, string contact isn’t always confined to exactly the same spot. Contact shifts slightly from one side to the other, spreading the wear.
Once tiny grooves develop, that changes. The grooves guide the strings back to the same spot. They hit the bottom of those grooves every. Single. Time. That concentrated contact speeds up fret wear exponentially.
The trick is to prevent those grooves from taking hold—or remove the wear as soon as they begin to appear.
At Hank’s Guitar Shop, our MasterPro Guitar Setup includes checking for fret wear. When we catch it early enough, our custom Fret Renewal Tool removes the developing grooves. After polishing, your frets look like new.
Deep grooves and heavily worn frets need more extensive work. That’s why waiting until the guitar becomes difficult to play can be expensive.
Bring your guitar to Hank’s Guitar Shop in Clearwater. Let us check the frets while the problem is still small so we can save you a ton of money!
