00:00If your guitar buzzes on the 3rd fret, chokes out on bends, and you're about ready to hand it to
00:04a tech and pay $100 for a fret level, hold on.
00:08I went digging through the tools that actual hobby lootiers are buying, the ones with thousands of sales and ratings
00:13that don't lie,
00:14and I found 5 that'll cover a full fret job for less than the cost of one setup.
00:18Here are the top 5 fretboard leveling tools, and the best deals I could find on them.
00:24Starting off with the radius sanding blocks, this is the dual purpose set,
00:27so each block gives you 2 radii, 7 1⁄4 with 9 1⁄2, 10 with 12, or 14 with 16.
00:34That's the part one really like, because you're not buying 6 separate blocks to cover the common necks.
00:40Vintage fender, modern fender, Gibson, Ibanez, it's all in there.
00:4519 bucks in change, 4.9 stars, and nearly 4,700 sold.
00:51If you're leveling a fingerboard or crowning fretwork and you want that radius to stay true across the whole neck,
00:56this is the one I'd grab first.
00:58Now if you want the same radius options but longer, there's the 40-centimeter version that's about 16 inches a
01:04block,
01:057 1⁄2 centimeters wide.
01:07And length genuinely matters here.
01:10A short block rides the dips in your fretboard, a long block bridges them and cuts the high spots first,
01:16which is exactly what you want when you're leveling.
01:19It's $26.92, so it's the priciest on this list, but 4.7 stars from 4,700 buyers.
01:26If you're working on bass necks or you do this more than once a year, spend the extra $7.
01:32Then there's the budget hero, the fret leveler beam that comes with sandpaper already included.
01:38$8.03.
01:40That's it.
01:41And it ships with the paper, so you're not making a second trip for abrasives.
01:464.5 stars, 4,600 sold.
01:50Look, is it the fanciest beam out there?
01:53No.
01:54But for somebody doing their first fret level on a cheap squire or a project guitar,
01:59this gets you a flat, straight reference surface for the price of a coffee and a sandwich.
02:04Hard to argue with that.
02:06Number 4 is the tool you should honestly buy before any of the others, the fret rocker.
02:12$4.43.
02:14Stainless steel, for precisely machined edges, and you just rock it across three frets at a time.
02:20If it seesaws, you found your high fret.
02:23That's the whole diagnosis.
02:264.6 stars, over 4,000 sold.
02:29Here's why it matters, half the time you don't need a full level.
02:33You need to find two high frets and tap them down.
02:37This little ruler tells you that in about 90 seconds and saves you from sanding a neck that
02:41didn't need it.
02:43And rounding out the list, the aluminum sanding block $11, and it's the only tool here sitting
02:48at a perfect 5 stars.
02:51Aluminum's the sweet spot for this job, it's rigid enough to stay dead flat under pressure,
02:55but light enough that you're not fighting it for 20 minutes straight.
02:59Over 4,300 sold, zero complaints in the rating.
03:03If you want one solid, long-lasting leveling block that isn't going to warp on you in a year,
03:08and you don't need multiple radii, this is a really easy $11 to spend.
03:13All 5 of these are linked down in the description, and prices do move around, so check before
03:18you buy.
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03:26Thanks for watching, and go fix that buzz.
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