Guitar Notched Straight Edge and FRET ROCKER

These are absolutely perfect. This covers 25.5” one one side and 24.75 on the other and the botched lines up perfectly. I wish there was one for a 26.5 & 27.7 baritone scale as well. So basically I paid to have my Fender player series strat set up and the local shop I took it to did not do a good job at all. So my strat sat here unused for almost a year because it was so bad. I don’t have good eyesight without wearing glasses that’ll give a normal person instant vertigo so I have an extremely hard time eye balling neck relief. Within two minutes of using this my strat is now absolutely perfectly setup as it should be. The straight edge arrived perfectly straight, although I agree that it should have arrived in a tube because the triangle shipping box was b basically destroyed because packages are so poorly handled these days. The fret rocker is extremely nice too, extremely well made and it’ll last forever. I do highly recommend that you buy a feeler gauge to go along with this. You can find them extremely cheap for under $5. You’ll need to to ensure you have the perfect factory specified neck relief. What I really love about this is it can show you if Tite having problems with frets or if the fretboard itself is the issue as well as neck relief. If you’re sitting there thinking to yourself “nah I’d just be better off spending the $150 to get the official Stew Mac version instead of some cheap knock off.” Then you’d be wrong because this is the exact same on every level and paying $150 for this tool is ludicrous. The material costs pennies and the labor involved with blades used for precision cutting the notches adds up to barely over $1. Do yourself a favor and save that money for that custom shop guitar that you’ve always wanted and will tell your wife it only cost $200 on sale, but she’ll know you’re full of crap and go buy something extremely stupid in retaliation so just get what you want to begin with.... lol. No really though these two tools are perfect. I’m so happy I bought this. I’ve setup three guitars with it now: a Charvel San Dimas, a limited run PRS CE24, and a custom headless guitar and they’ve all never played so well from being set so precise. Worth every paltry penny this tool set costs. It pays for itself in not having to waste money on setups anymore.

I started watching videos on how to make my guitar play better. Being able to straighten the neck myself has made a huge difference. After you give the truss rod a small adjustment it can take a day or so for that adjustment to settle which means it may take a week to get it perfect. From watching the pros I now know that once your saddles are at the correct height and arc they don't change. What changes is the neck depending on things like the weather. If I start to get fret buzz I can now check to see if the neck is straight or not and adjust it... I'm new to working on my own guitars so I haven't used the fret rocker yet but I definitely will. I can get my action perfect using this notched straight edge and some feeler gauges. I have Fender and Gibson guitars so this works for both. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to have their guitar play the way they want it to play all of the time.

The media could not be loaded. Overall a good and useful tool.I took off one star because the hole for hanging it is drilled too far down to hang the tool in spaces with vertical constraints. See video.

I'm a StewMac patron through and through. I regularly buy their high quality tools and will continue to. As most know, their inventive spirit and top notch quality often allows them to develop a monopoly on luthier tools and they are justifiably able to set their prices at whatever they wish. But I am also a deliberative shopper, so I ended up searching amazon for alternatives when I saw how much a precision notched straightedge was going for. Most of the competitors on Amazon had horrid stories in the reviews... except this one. So I took a chance, pulled the trigger, and now have a quality notched straightedge for a fraction of the cost. I checked its straightness against a precision straightedge and found it to be perfect with no light shining through at any location. The metal is solid, thick, rigid, durable, and I dig the brushed finish.

I have several guitars, from a cheapo I bought just for fun, to a higher end model I bought when I decided to get more serious. Of course, I noticed that the more expensive guitar was much easier to play from the start due to the better craftsmanship and setup. I was never much for judging the curve in a neck, so I thought I'd give this a try. I wish I'd done it a long time ago. You just slap it on the neck, look for the gap, and make slight adjustments to the truss rod. I even realized I was adjusting the wrong way on one of my guitars. Now all of my guitars have low action and play like never before. The only negative about the straight edge is that the corners and edges are somewhat sharp, so just be careful.If you're buying a cheap guitar to start out, this would be a great accessory. Having a properly set-up guitar can make learning a lot easier.

I use these two measuring tools more than I thought I would. I'm pretty good at eyeing neck straightness but the notched straight edge gives you more accuracy, especially if you want that slight neck relief. Here in Maine the seasons are so drastic that I'm always adjusting my truss rods when the seasons change. One side is for Strat type guitars and the other side is for Gibson scale length. Unfortunately the notches are not arranged for PRS. The Fret Rocker tool is perfect for checking fret height. It's a bit more advanced in its use than the straight edge since you need to know how to level frets. I've seen various straight implements used to check fret height 3-frets at a time, so the Fret Rocker isn't THAT crucial but the varied measuring lengths are very convenient when going up and down the fret board. Anybody who's halfway serious about maintaining their guitar should grab a set!