FretGuru Fret Leveler - Professional Sanding Beam Ultra-Precision, 10"

Great fret leveler!!! Made the work accurate, smooth and easy to use!! Super strong and at a great price. Thanks Bernie!!

This is my first time leveling my own frets, but I watched many tutorials on the process and leveled both my mandolin and acoustic guitar this week using this sander. It worked great! Very easy to use with the size, so little worry about sanding too hard on the front or back end. My only fuss is I think the price is a bit steep, but this will likely last my lifetime. Maybe they could throw in some more sanding strips for the price.😉😆 Overall great product though, highly recommend.

Worked perfectly 10 inch worked much better than a 6 inch rail.

Works great, just what I needed to level the frets.

I may not have any authority on the subject as I am new to doing my own guitar maintenance, setups and repairs, but this thing meets all my needs, exceeds my expectations and feels like it was made with old fashioned Made in America pride. It's a basic tool and one could easily DIY craft a simple block and add sand paper to it and it would work just as well, no doubt. In fact, I would recommend doing that first and then buying one of these shortly thereafter so that you could appreciate that much more. If this vendor makes other tools I will probably go the DIY route and then upgrade one tool at a time. I fully support the vendor who crafted this thing and made it possible to swipe the payment authorization on Prime and then have it waiting for me at my front doorstep. Get one, or don't get one, but if you get it I hope you can appreciate the quality and craftsmanship as much as I do. I have zero Internet influence, but if I did I would plug this so more people could get a hold of one and take the risk that they would love the baby Jesus out of it!!! ;) Mr. Vendor, I hope this one little review helps you in BIG ways. Keep making these, please.

This is a good tool. Some advice. 1. Start with higher grit sand paper. the 100 grit and 240 grit are too aggressive that they will take more than enough material out of the frets and will make your frets lower. 2. The 100 grit and 240 grit will make the surface of the frets too rough and make your fret polishing job difficult. 3. Use some painter tapes (narrow one) underneath the sand paper for easy removal and replacement.

I presumed that this leveling beam would be at the least - serviceable. I’ve used several FretGuru products before in the past & they’ve all been quite good in my opinion. Never extravagant but always well designed & manufactured, AND they’re U.S.A. made! Plus, they’re always an excellent alternative to the ‘big name’ & ‘even bigger price tag’ options that can cost 8x as much. However I didn’t expect this leveling beam to seem SO well made. It’s got a very good anodized coating on it that looks great, a really nice blue, but coatings can also occasionally hide shoddy craftsmanship or QC. Laying this beam on a reference plate though, mainly out of curiosity, shocked me with what it showed. Whoever ground this thing flat & then lapped it - KNEW what they were doing. It’s only 0.0004 off being PERFECTLY (and impossibly) straight. Four tenths of one ten-thousandth of an inch. Far below even the standard margin of manufacturing error. I never would’ve guessed that, and if I hadn’t referenced it I wouldn’t have believed it. I didn’t know that ‘that’ was even achievable if you set out on a project to do that. If I had to mention one negative… and even then it’s NOT ‘really’ a negative, as it is everything it’s described to be in the listing… it’s that it only comes with one strip of adhesive backed sandpaper of each grit. It would’ve seemed so much more generous had it included 2 or 3 rather than simply 1 of each grit. But, it’s not as if they said I’d get 2 or 3… and many of the listed leveling beams don’t seem to come with paper at all. The strips included however do seem to be of a pretty decent quality, and they’ve adhered to the beam quite well. Just be careful of getting any wrinkles or bubbles under the paper when you stick it down onto the beam. Because even a tiny wrinkle or bubble can cause havoc when you try to level your frets. The instructions (very clear BTW) advise to heat up the adhesive backed sandpaper gently as that will aid in getting good adhesion. I didn’t take that extra step & mine adhered quite well to both working sides and ended up perfectly aligned & smoothly laid. But to be on the safe side - follow the instructions carefully. All in all - why would you spend upwards of $80-130 for a leveling beam that you may only use a few times (unless you’re a working Luthier with your own shop), when you can spend less than half that amount and still get a very good quality & American made alternative? Even if you ARE a working Luthier with your own shop… this FretGuru beam, judging from what I’ve seen with mine, is just as good!

This sanding beam is nice. FretGuru recently upgraded this product to put a heavier finish on it, and a light texture to make it less slippery. I had no problems leveling the frets on a guitar I’m building. Cleaning up the residue of the adhesive sandpaper is easy with some acetone, which to my knowledge only works on the new upgraded finish. Good value for the money.

10/10 would fret guru again

Doesn't even look expensive. Probably could have cheaper solution, but you buy this things once, so it will pays of. Don't regret of buying it.

Better than expected. Perfectly flat. Checked against my straight edge! Ends are slightly bevelled.

Was using a level with sand paper but this works way better It’s the perfect weight to take off just enough fret