Ceramic Frets Guitar

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Ceramic frets guitar.

Guitar frets have this shape and are usually cut out of strips of wire and hammered down into ridges on the fretboard. 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. 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. The tusq nut and saddle we use is almost ceramic.

Frets are cut from fret wire which comes on a roll. In the end the best of these materials proved to be a stainless steel alloy. The dual ceramic humbucking pickups boast hot output for powerful tones perfect for crunchy rhythms and soaring solos. We decided we preferred the sound of nickel silver.

After all that i must say that these are only my opinions and i have no argument with anyone who likes the sound of a guitar with this bridge on it. The part of the fret that goes into the slot is called the tang and the part that sits on top of the fingerboard is called the crown when we talk about fret sizes we re only talking about the crown. Now i feel better. Pure ceramic sounds well kinda like ceramic.

And finally it s bad because it has a ceramic saddle which weighs enough to be an effective mute all by itself. Besides this is a pricey job and if it hadn t been for. The frets are tapped into pre cut slots on the fingerboard. 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.