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Fret Beveling File (B-File)
What if you could quickly and confidently bevel your fret ends? Filing fret ends with a consistent angle and finish has never been easier with MusicNomad’s B-File. With the ideal 23° and 3° file angles, no detail was overlooked in designing this revolutionary bevel file. The high-quality, durable Acacia wood ergonomic handle is shaped with a curved radius underside and is wide enough to lay centered across the entire fretboard, providing for unmatched stability when filing. The fully adjustable and replaceable high carbon-steel file includes a double cut side and single cut side, allowing for full customization to meet your needs. Our innovative design includes deeper channel recesses for the file, ensuring the file clears the body. That’s MusicNomad quality, bringing fret care to the next level.
A Handle Like No Other
The ergonomic design gives you comfort and control. The innovative radius underside keeps you centered while filing and the wide handle is a big plus, helping you get the results you want.
23° and 3° Angles are the Perfect Angle
After interviewing a group of top repair shops in search of the optimal angles leading to the best appearance and playability, our 23° and 3° angles are what you want. The 23° angle provides the ideal bevel on frets for all styles of playing. Use the 3° angle for initial filing, fret sprout, flush filing or tang removal.
Works for All Guitars
MusicNomad's Precision Fret Beveling File works for Electric, Acoustic & Bass Guitars.
Adjustable File Lets You Clear the Body
Our deeper channel recesses the file to clear the body when filing fret ends on acoustic guitars.
Innovative, High Quality 2 'n 1 File
One file side is Double Cut for heavy removal and a coarse cut with the other side of the file is Single Cut for fine removal and a smooth cut. The perfect 1-2 combination works for all fret wire types, including nickel silver, EVO gold and stainless steel and helps get it primed for the next step, a fret dressing and polish.
Complete Fret Care Tool Set
Step up and get the entire 18pc. Fret Care Tool Set (MN880) that includes all the fret tools needed to diagnose, spot level, crown and polish frets, plus fix guitar fret sprout and sharp fret ends.
Take Your Frets to the Next Level with MusicNomad's Expanded Fret Care Line
About this manufacture:
MusicNomad Equipment Care, launched in 2010, is located in Sonoma, CA (USA) has products in over 1000 US Dealers and 40+ countries. Their guitar, drum and cymbal care products are used in the factories of Suhr, Knaggs, Kala, Tom Anderson and Eastman Strings in addition to DW Drum and more. MusicNomad has Surface Care and Repair Tool products for Guitar, Drum and Cymbal, Band and Orchestra and Piano and Keyboard equipment along with an extensive line of Humidification care products. A portion of all equipment care sales contributes money to help musicians through their giving back initiatives such as One For Music, Guitar Tracker and MusicNomad website.
Tedd C.
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
Works great, pretty much foolproof if you take your time.
Frank
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
Right out of the box perfect! My guitar tech was behind on work, so decided to to this myself. Outstanding easy product. Will be buying more from seller..
Ethan
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
awesome tool to have it makes the work 5x easier and faster these things are definitely worth the money
One picky dude
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2025
Handled fret sprout perfectly. Additional fret end rounding with other tools was needed to finish the job, but this tool absolutely did the bulk of work effortlessly and with precision.
Barry Sebastian
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
Picked this up to trim fret ends to file down fret sprout that occurred as result of seasonal change. Worked great - no damage to side of fretboard. Good weight for smooth movement up and down fretboard. I was even able to use it with strings on. Good value, ease of use and quality. If you own several guitars, a must have in the toolbox👍.
Roger Jane
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2025
good quality and great price
Le capitaine cosmos
Reviewed in Canada on September 17, 2024
Parfait merci
Lawrence
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2024
This MusicNomad fret beveling tool is really handy. Changes in weather, wood shrinkage, etc can cause your frets to poke you in the hand as you play. You could take your guitars to your local tech once or more times per year and pay them for the work. You can, however, buy this tool and learn to do the work yourself.MusicNomad has short informational YouTube videos that explain the process. It's not difficult, just take your time. Yes, there are similar tools, but not like this. This beveler has a radiused surface that conforms to the guitar neck better than a flat-bottomed bevel tool. The file angles were chosen to create optimum playability.I'm happy with my purchase and happy about the progress that I have made in maintaining my own guitar frets. Save money by perfecting a new skill every guitarist can have.
Miro
Reviewed in Germany on December 2, 2024
In short (sarcastic):- uneven (imagine you only using this tool for guitar neck, so why bother?)- clamping screws are damaging the file surface (then again, if the wood is uneven, why even bother about damaged file?)- overpriced as hell (but that is "USA made in China" Nomad's normality)It is really sad that a luthier tool will come with such a low quality. I bought new ones from StewMac and some Portuguese company. They are evenly shaped (the radius is correct, and not changing every few centimeters), and the file holding crews are separated from the file by thin steel bars, so the file itself stays undamaged).
TeeSee
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2024
Love the way it cuts fret sprout. There's a 0 degree and 3 degree setting. Bit of masking tape down the sides use the 0 degree first, then the 3 degree after and you dont have to worry about filing each fret at the edge. Dont do what I did, whizz down the neck and it slip off and scratch the frets you've so lovingly levelled, crowned and partially polished. Slow and steady wins the race. Almost foolproof unless it's driven by a fool. I got there eventually.
Patrick S.
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024
I waited until I really used this before reviewing. Purchased because I was already pushing my guitar tool budget and needed to save some money, so I chose this over the more expensive StewMac file. I'm so happy with it!! the angles are perfect, the included file is sharp and quality, the slots are big enough to put any other file in too if you want. It's comfortable and very nice looking. Just great, I love it when the more affordable option over-delivers.
Philip
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2024
I have another like this, but this is superior. It's great that you can change the angle.
MikeyP
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2024
On receiving it I tried to place the file into the pre-cut slot. No way! The slot was cut too tight. So I had to spend about 15 minutes of slowly sanding the slot aperture wider with the file to make a better/looser fit. The block has retainer screws to keep the file from falling out or sliding….so there was no reason for the chinese factory to undercut the slot.However, once I got the fret filing system in-place and working as designed….WOW! It’s like magic on those rough frets. I’d give it 5 stars if it was properly cut by the factory.
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