Guitar Fretting & Set-Up
with Michael Bashkin
October 4-5, 2025
$500.00
About This Workshop
Learn how to make your guitar play and sound its best through professional fretwork and setup. This course demonstrates a fret job on a new guitar including fingerboard leveling and preparation, fret selection and preparation for bound and unbound fingerboards. There will be presentations of several methods for installing frets, different methods for fret end dressing including hemispherical fret ends, fret leveling, crowning and polishing, making a fully intonated bone saddle and nut, adjusting truss rods and setting the action for several styles of playing. All information will be discussed from a guitar making and guitar repair perspectives.
Key Points
- Creating unique designs for your instruments
- Selection of materials
- Application of hand, power tool and digital methods
- Jigs and fixtures for guitars
- Binding and purfling for guitars
- Inlays and marquetry methods
Michael Bashkin
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