How to Replace Guitar Frets : How to Install Guitar Frets

[liberatorGR1]

2:02 thats the best fretboard ive seen in my life !

[furlong08857]

Man,,,  use a vice dude

[raysonkong]

the whole epertvillage thing is a scam

[HearGear]

Sometimes redneck repair could be good.. BUT.. this guy is way to redneck.. he does not know a shit about what hes doing, in this vid the fretboard will be a totaly mess before all frets are in place...

[quinmantha666]

the hands of a "true" workman , yeh great handywork asshole that necks gonna be shite to play!

[synyst3erivan]

JAjajajaja what the fuck was that????

[angev2]

Ive watched a few of his videos and while he seems to know his sh1te, he is rough as all fukc. Guitars are delicate things to work on and require delicate hands and eye for detail. This guy appeared to work in an abattoir before he took to "working" on guitars. Dumbfounded how this guys makes a living off guitar work. 

[glassesmolasses]

Nice view of his quality handiwork on the rest of the neck, if you pause at 2:02

[mitchellsonguitars]

just get a fucking fretting hammer god sake

[apocalipse2215]

the video ended, he not make...

[dazwil]

He's like a pig with a gripe

[Chromatype]

I can't believe this guy let that video go to the internet! And some pressure, a few dents in the brazilian rosewood fretboard...and there you go!

[redfenderguy]

this guy really scares me i feel really concerned

i feel so sorry for any poor bastard that pays him to fix  there guitar

[Generaleenutts]

ffs.....that looked like a nice fretboard.....not anymore...what a retard....buy the proper tools you moron, if you know how to use them....dick

[SeGaSaTuRn1994]

@Generaleenutts listen to wat he says moron he said in his workshop he has the proper tools he just showing how to put the fret it if u listened properly u would know why he was doing it this way

[RaymondFRevalee]

are you fucking joking? fret press fumble fingers, what a joke.

[pece33]

Oh My God what a fucken mess.I bet the person that owns that fretboard is sueing the ass off these jack asses.

This guy derserves an award for his kind of `way-out there` methods.

He may be a retard in disgiuse !

[barnoguttlin]

guitar building hoax, gotta love it :)

[Behindspace90]

@barnoguttlin

This one is real, Barno. Believe it or not. Expertvillage is known for its terrible videos, certainly when it comes to guitars.

Expertvillage actually describes exactly how NOT to do it.

[Milzililili99]

do you gasp when you only install frets?

[mitchellsonguitars]

fucking dickhead

[bluesclassic]

ha-ha-ha-ha

[spudvader86]

They could have edited the video so he didn't look like a goon.

[ivanoidea]

DUDE....???? WTF do you then have to sand and re laquer the back of the neck ?....lol...

[67Nothing]

lol

[donepearce]

Oh, my teeth are actually itching with embarrassment watching this. No good I'll have to stop it.

[insaneinthebrain1978]

i piss my pants everytime i watch ...this is historical footage !!!!

[TheSuckatash]

what else would you expect from expervillage.. their shit is so lame. i cringe everytime i click on one of their videos by mistake.

[TheThomasKlein]

NOOB



[mrskint55]

he is making hard work of this .Does he work for bodge it and scarper?!!!!

[tkudelj1]

I wuldnt give my guitar to this guy... his metal thingy got slipped 2 times while he pressed just one fret... i think this neck will look like one big mess with like... 50 dents on fingerboard side and few on back side... i would use one term from call of duty... NOOOOOOB

[dallton2007]

lol!

[picklepete1]

Just wrap electrical tape around the vice grips jaws and walk down the fret easing it in.

[yoheff988]

who is this retard?

[cinobilo21]

loll

[cornflakesnwater]

lol......this is funny..get you a fret press mannnnnnnn..!!!

[MICKEYISLOWD]

if you look down the fretboard at 204 it looks like its been through a mangle...

[nuthinbuttrubl89]

this is bad... this is really bad. hey buddy... put that brass radius insert, buy the rest of the f*kin' stewmac fret press setup, put it in your drill press - epic win.

I make guitars and would NEVER attempt this... I either hammer them or press them the right way... not with some god awful vice grip and "another person helping me when i'm at the workshop"... this is such bullsit

[MICKEYISLOWD]

@nuthinbuttrubl89 this guy couldnt press a pair of slacks

[MrGuitarDavid]

lmao

MrAverageGuitarist and

murrmac chill out lol

[murrmac]

@MrGuitarDavid , yeah, I guess we should chill out indeed, LOL ...

I can't help coming back to this video, it really is the funniest thing I have ever seen on Youtube.

After half a dozen attempts he finally manages to get the tang in the slot, then holds it up proudly for the camera, and the ends of the fret are sticking up a quarter of an inch at each end.

RADIUS THE FRET BEFORE YOU INSERT IT, DUDE !!

Pure comedy gold ...

[murrmac]

@MrAverageGuitarist , "having a go" doesn't cut it.

If you put up a video on Youtube showing how to do something, you should at least have some idea of the correct way to go about it.

This guy is absolutely clueless, but one thing in his favor is that the comedy value is excellent, same with all the other Expertvillage guitar videos.

The others are all funny, but I think this one is the best yet, a slapstick classic, right up there with the best of Chaplin and Keaton.

[MrAverageGuitarist]

Yes but having a go at someone for trying is just low. And he does have some idea on how to do it correctly, hes just not very good at it.

[Generaleenutts]

@MrAverageGuitarist this guy is supposed to make guitars for a living, even the Chinese could make a guitar better than this guy

[insaneinthebrain1978]

great skills !!!

[paraglidermx]

needs a shot of jack!!!

[brianroxxxx]

horrible failure.

[dziuniek123]

I'm sure this is a joke! He looks like an ignorant!

[kc8dhp]

Ever see the Red Green Show?

I was waiting for this bozo to pull out a propane torch!

[Francosalvaneschi]

you can also use a rubber hammer

[petecatz]

this is a how not to fret a guitar video....

[MyGunShootsRope]

omg this is a joke right? this guy is out of his freaking mind!

[HearGear]

How about to buy a Fretpress.. sad to use this redneck method if u are running a workshop.. check out the fret tools u can buy on the internet so maby u dont have to use those redneck methods to repair a guitar.

[jonahguitarguy]

Very, very sad

[david1513]

throw them vice craps away and use a plastic hammer frets are not that hard to install a slite tape with a hammer with a flat block of wood atop the fret and its in.

[alemarp]

I'm sorry, but are you teaching something? Oh , yeah, : "How to ruin an expensive inlayed fret board"

[PatandUli]

the poor guitar is being raped , this is the kinda shit that makes me sad :-(

[WallStreetMogul]

wank stain

[PascalROLLIN]

j'en ai vu des maladroits, mais comme celui là...

[bmgbluz]

Good way to f@@K up a guitar. Who is this guy? Is this a comedy routine or is it real??

[guitarguy51486]

poor guy was probably nervous cuz of the camera....i still wouldnt give him my guitar

[CamilleJacob]

I hardly imagine all the spots that he did on the ebony....

he should have been a butcher

[extreme410]

LMAO!!!!!!

[myway43]

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!........step away from the guitar! Step away from the guitar!

[grandpatarzan]

how about this?: "installing frets, take two"

[iamasmodai]

Good idea, poor execution. Stew-Mac carries a fretting device like this - one designed by Erlewine.

[Gruesomeb]

No . . . just no.

[mrthunderbird]

Um,not good! Don't think I'll be sending him anything EVER!

[ZedGuitar]

OMG! This is BAD.

[lightspeed66]

Once you master the fumbling, then you can work on taking out all the dents from the brass radius attachment. The problem of course is that you have fretted your thumb into the fretboard, so you have to first master unfretting your thumb and then move onto the dent removal process.

[mothershipjellyfish]

This is painful to watch. Everything is wrong. 1) Attach the board to the neck first. 2) put the neck on a sandbag or something that will absorb the blows. 3) HAMMER the frets in.

If you're going to use some kind of press, it's probably a good idea to attach the little "radius device" to the press instead of trying to steady it with your hand. ;)

[robocaster]

The concept is good, but I will take the radius piece and hold with a block of wood with at groove sliced in to it, then I can apply mass pressure evenly without the thing slipping off; that should minimize leveling issues.

[localboy333]

WOWIE!!!!...OUCH!!!....He just mangled the neck (and probably the rest) of my $10,000 axe.....

[marts500]

this does not look like an artisan at work...mmm