Renowned Jescar high quality guitar fret wire offers luthiers and players alike the following benefits:
- Perfect forming of all wire dimensions throughout the entire coil length
- Stringent quality control of tensile strength, hardness, dimension, and composition
- Exact symmetry of profile with centred and perpendicular tangs
- Barbs with sharp highly defined points to bite into the fret slots and remain securely seated.
- Tolerances accurate to within +/- 0.002″
- Superfinish surface quality for a bright appearance and smooth finish
- Greater hardness and tighter grain structure for longer life and playability
- Offered in traditional 18% Nickel Silver, and Gold EVO alloy
Nickel Silver fretwire is available and sold in single 2 feet lengths (610mm) – typically pre-radiused to approximately 10”.
A range of fretwire is available to suit most requirements - from Narrow/Tall through to Bass/Super Jumbo sizes.
Please see diagrams for specific fret dimensions.
NB. Nickel Silver, 18% Nickel Silver and German Silver are common terms used around fretwire. However, there is no actual silver component.
Jescar advise that typically, 5-6 feet (1.5 - 1.8m) of fretwire is needed to do a full guitar.
Typical alloy composition is 18% Nickel and large amounts of copper and sometimes zinc, along with other trace elements.