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Pulled the frets on a 1960 Esquire today. Already fretted a few guitars with these now (I think this will be my 5th refret in the last two weeks), but this one, these old Fenders, this is where I'm going to be really grateful to finally have a set like this!

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International shipments are out. Hope you all like them!

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My set arrived today, thanks Andy! Great service, excellent quality!!

Cheers,
Dave Fifield

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Got mine today as well. Thanks Andy.

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Received mine yesterday. They're perfect - almost like unpacking gold doubloons. Thanks Andy.


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Goodies in the mail box!

Thanks Andy! (David Collins and Hesh too!)

This one's deep.

Ours came today too Andy. Very nice. Thanks for the lights too. Good luck with your projects.--Bob

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Nice sweet set arrived.

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Arrived safely to Canada. Looking good. Thanks to you and your packer.

Jim

My set arrived in Windsor on Monday. Now I need to finish this neck on our long weekend starting Friday and get the ebony board fretted.

Thanks again Andy,
Bob

My set arrived in QLD Australia today. Good quality, no burrs. Thank you Andy, and all your helpers.

For anyone who missed out - I'm making these available at the group price until all the sets I've made run out. You can order them here:

http://www.birkonium.com/product/ultima ... -caul-set/

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I recieved my set and am ready for the fretting and setup workshop in October with Hesh and David.

Thanks, Andy!

I love my new ultimate fret caul set! Thank you for the quality tools Andy.
-Jamie


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Sweet caddy!!!!! Excellent idea on darkening the numbers.

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Thanks definetly worth it to protect and keep them organized. Plus it solved the issue of figuring out which caul is in the press

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Darkened the numbers with a sharpie and then hit em with some 800grit.

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I just saw this thread and put in my order on Andy's site. Very nice! Thanks for doing this.

Hi All,

Had to make another batch of these and decided to lower the price a bit as manufacturing these is a little easier now. Out of this new batch, there are 6 sets left so I'm offering them to OLF members at the original price of $185+shipping until they run out. Use the coupon code: olf-ufcs-discount when you checkout.

https://birkonium.com/product/ultimate- ... -caul-set/

p.s. I've never done a coupon on the website before so if you have troubles, please let me know either here or through the contact form on the website, we'll figure it out.

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These are highly recommended and Dave Collins helped Andy determine the graduations in the individual cauls making them ideally suited for compound radius creation as well as standard fretting.

Like many special tools that come along they often are batched and not always available so keep that in mind.

Andy we have one or two sets at our shop, I'm home so I can't tell from here. If you need to sell these two they are already yours. We have no plans to resume the classes our daily work is much more profitable these days.

Please forgive me if this was discussed earlier, but would these be of assistance fretting a multiscale board, say 16" radius with 25.4 bass and 24.9 treble scales, or even more significant of a difference. Just trying to wrap my little brain around the geometry this late on a Sunday evening.

Thanks!

It's simply a set of cauls for pressing frets in graduations specifically calculated for what we do when we refret guitars, mandos, banjos, etc.

Before these were available all you could get were six or so cauls from Stew Mac. These fill in all the blanks and add additional functionality too.

When I fret I like to use a caul that is just a tad tighter radius than the board this ensures that the ends are firmly down. All our boards are compound so we are changing cauls every several frets or so and that's what this set does very well.

There was never any intent to design the set for multi scale boards but you could use it provided that the cauls themselves are long enough for the longest multi-scale frets. You do want the caul covering the fret ends to make sure that they are all the way down too not just the middles. I don't know how long the cauls are you could ask Andy I'm home now and not in Ann Arbor.

Hi Andy, I tried using the coupon code but it said it was invalid. Can you help? By the way , I sent a message on your contact page also. Please forgive my double messaging.
Thanks, Craig

I received my set of cauls today Andy.
Thank you!!

I'd like to build a caddy for my fret caul set. It seemed to me that dustyjeans had posted of picture of a beautiful caddy he made. However, either I am mistaken and it was someone else or, it is just missing. Is it possible to repost the picture? Thanks, and Happy New Year.