Prep-Work For Fretwork The key to a better fret job, is prep-work. Here I’m radiusing the fret wire and cutting the frets to length. I always cut the first and last inch off the ends of the fret wire as that part doesn’t radius. Then I am using the Stewmac deluxe fret tang nipper on the ends of the frets. Normally this tang nipper does a good enough job that I can just seat the frets after using it. But on this neck I wanted to make sure that the ends were flat so I went over each one with a fil