Talking about guitar maintenance we sometimes overlook the guitar frets condition.

Guitar fret is made of an alloy of copper and nickel, a much softer material compared to the stainless steel guitar strings. On acoustic guitars the first and second strings will cut into the frets faster than the other strings, because they are thin and sharp, and made of stainless steel. The rest strings are wound by other alloy materials such as nickel, bronze or brass which are softer than stainless steel so they won’t cut as severe as the first two strings. Read the rest of this entry »