Crowning Tool Peference

[aggravated_alien]

Who here still prefers the triangle files for crowning frets as opposed to the crowning files and why.

Also are diamond crowning files worth the extra money or will standard crowing files do.

[factory5150]

I personally use both triangle files and 3-1 fret file. I use the 3-1 file to get the fret close and use the triangle file to finish it off. Diamond files however wont leave near as many marks as the regular file would. If I had the money I would upgrade to the diamond files to save time and effort in polishing the frets. I spend more time with the sanding stick then I do actually leveling/crowning the frets.

[Ilikes2shred]

I use triangle files because I don't have a crowning file. It works great for me though and I can get my frets very round in a short amount of time.

[j. pierce]

I have one of these crowning files - it leaves very nice surfaces - you can really go right to buffing the frets if from there if you want. The only problems I have are telling which side supposed to be the larger of the two - it's not quite obvious at first glance; and that even on the small/med side, it seems a bit too large for the fretwire I use. (I tend for a smaller wire, than is "normal" I guess - I don't like the huge stuff that's on most production guitars these days.) I really like the shape of it, however, the "offset" shape works real well for some positions.

[aggravated_alien]

Ok they sound pretty cool I have read that some have had a very hard to time getting the profiles to match the frets.

This scares me a lot I don't want to go out and buy an offset crowning file and it not fit my frets.