Ceramic Frets Guitar

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Ceramic frets guitar.

Now i feel better. Player friendly features like a slim c shaped maple neck give this guitar a slick smooth feel while the 12 fingerboard radius and narrow tall frets are ideal for speed and effortless bends. By the way tom anderson guitars uses ss frets on their electrics and they sound great. Pure ceramic sounds well kinda like ceramic.

Is there any kind of ceramic material that would be durable enough to use as a fret black in color and able to be shaped roughly like a fret. In the end the best of these materials proved to be a stainless steel alloy. The tusq nut and saddle we use is almost ceramic. And finally it s bad because it has a ceramic saddle which weighs enough to be an effective mute all by itself.

Frets are strips of metal generally an alloy of nickel and brass embedded along a guitar s fretboard which makes up most of the guitar s neck. The frets are tapped into pre cut slots on the fingerboard. Over the years i have experimented with different exotic metals for frets such as titanium stainless steel hestelloy c 22 inconel 718 ceramic coated material zirconium tungsten coatings and cobalt based super alloys. By depressing a string against the fretboard below a fret meaning away from the guitar body the vibrating length of that string changes and a specific note results.

It stops shy and sounds great because of it. Guitar frets have this shape and are usually cut out of strips of wire and hammered down into ridges on the fretboard. We decided we preferred the sound of nickel silver. Besides this is a pricey job and if it hadn t been for.

The dual ceramic humbucking pickups boast hot output for powerful tones perfect for crunchy rhythms and soaring solos.