Fret Fast

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Dec 2001 9:42 am

I don't get around to changing my strings as often as maybe I should. However, I've got a way of making them sound and play better. Has anyone used a product called "Fret Fast"? I guess it was marketed for regular guitar players but I got to using it on my steel guitars several years ago. It is basically some kind of stuff on an applicator that you rub on the strings to clean them and make them smoother. A cloth also comes with to wipe off the crud afterwards. A clean string has to sound better than a dirty one, right?
I can also tell the difference in how the bar slides over the strings after I've given them the treatment. I have no connection with the company, I'm just passing this along.
Erv

John Kavanagh · Post by **John Kavanagh** » 12 Dec 2001 9:50 am

"Fast Fret"? I never leave home without it.
Started using it on my (fretless) upright bass, also use it on steel now. The strings feel slicker and faster, not sure if it preserves life but stands to reason.

Bill Fall · Post by **Bill Fall** » 12 Dec 2001 2:01 pm

Back when I couldn't afford strings for my six-string, I used to clean them with Hoppe's gun solvent. This always brought them back clean & bright & smooth to play. But, of course, nothing will rejuvenate metal fatique and intonation in dead strings.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 12 Dec 2001 4:51 pm

I used something similar back in the 80's (I can't remember it's name). It did make the string "slicker" but it also tended to lower the "tone" life of the strings. It also gunked up in between the windings of the wound strings. I stopped using it after a while. Maybe this is a great improvement over that old crap. May just give it a try.

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Carter D10 9p/10k
Richard Sinkler

Tim Rowley · Post by **Tim Rowley** » 13 Dec 2001 12:03 am

I have used Fast Fret for a number of years. It seems to work well.

Tim R.

Larry R · Post by **Larry R** » 13 Dec 2001 2:53 pm

WARNING: Do not get a Blitz Cloth on a lacquer finish. It will react to the polyurethane and lacquer. It will dull the finish and if it gets past the poly. it may take the lacquer off as well. Yes they do a good job of cleaning but you better cover that axe with newspaper and rags before using the BC. Seems like changing strings would be less costly than having an axe refinished.