Guitar Notched Straight Edge and FRET ROCKER

These are absolutely perfect. This covers 25.5” one one side and 24.75 on the other and the botched lines up perfectly. I wish there was one for a 26.5 & 27.7 baritone scale as well. So basically I paid to have my Fender player series strat set up and the local shop I took it to did not do a good job at all. So my strat sat here unused for almost a year because it was so bad. I don’t have good eyesight without wearing glasses that’ll give a normal person instant vertigo so I have an extremely hard time eye balling neck relief. Within two minutes of using this my strat is now absolutely perfectly setup as it should be. The straight edge arrived perfectly straight, although I agree that it should have arrived in a tube because the triangle shipping box was b basically destroyed because packages are so poorly handled these days. The fret rocker is extremely nice too, extremely well made and it’ll last forever. I do highly recommend that you buy a feeler gauge to go along with this. You can find them extremely cheap for under $5. You’ll need to to ensure you have the perfect factory specified neck relief. What I really love about this is it can show you if Tite having problems with frets or if the fretboard itself is the issue as well as neck relief. If you’re sitting there thinking to yourself “nah I’d just be better off spending the $150 to get the official Stew Mac version instead of some cheap knock off.” Then you’d be wrong because this is the exact same on every level and paying $150 for this tool is ludicrous. The material costs pennies and the labor involved with blades used for precision cutting the notches adds up to barely over $1. Do yourself a favor and save that money for that custom shop guitar that you’ve always wanted and will tell your wife it only cost $200 on sale, but she’ll know you’re full of crap and go buy something extremely stupid in retaliation so just get what you want to begin with.... lol. No really though these two tools are perfect. I’m so happy I bought this. I’ve setup three guitars with it now: a Charvel San Dimas, a limited run PRS CE24, and a custom headless guitar and they’ve all never played so well from being set so precise. Worth every paltry penny this tool set costs. It pays for itself in not having to waste money on setups anymore.

Made in the USA, good quality steel. Perfectly straight and all the edges and contact points are smooth, with my guitar on a level table the straight edge will balance on its own while standing up on the fretboard, makes it very easy to take measurements. The edges DO seem a little sharp as others have pointed out. "Sharp" isn't even the word, the right angles are just very very straight. It hasn't been an issue at all, I'm just very careful with my guitar so I look out for stuff like that. I think if you scraped this against your guitar it would leave a scratch, but so would any tool, so just be careful. Anyway, I used this to adjust my neck relief to .006" with 4/64" action, plays great, accurate tool. Works on strat scale and les paul scale guitars. My only complaint is that my PRS SE Santana is a different scale length so it doesn't work, but actually that's a complaint for Paul Reed Smith.

The Notched Straightedge does the job. It is rigid, durable and accurate. The notch corners are not rounded so they may feel sharp to your fingers, but all edges are smooth and do not scratch the neck. Great value. Unfortunately, the included rocker tool was no good. The shortest side fails every fret right down the line. If three frets are spaced such that the shortest edge and second shortest edge can both measure them, the short edge rocks while the second shortest edge passes them. If three frets are spaced out enough to hit near the outer edges of the second shortest side, it fails (rocks) while the next longest side passes them. It is slight, but enough to have you filing down good frets if you don't look out. Skip the rocker, but enjoy a great value in the notched straightedge.

I started watching videos on how to make my guitar play better. Being able to straighten the neck myself has made a huge difference. After you give the truss rod a small adjustment it can take a day or so for that adjustment to settle which means it may take a week to get it perfect. From watching the pros I now know that once your saddles are at the correct height and arc they don't change. What changes is the neck depending on things like the weather. If I start to get fret buzz I can now check to see if the neck is straight or not and adjust it... I'm new to working on my own guitars so I haven't used the fret rocker yet but I definitely will. I can get my action perfect using this notched straight edge and some feeler gauges. I have Fender and Gibson guitars so this works for both. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to have their guitar play the way they want it to play all of the time.

This straight edge isn’t all that straight. When compared to an accurate machinist rule, and the top of my table saw, you can see some gaps. That kind of defeats the purpose of this tool. But you aren’t paying StewMac prices because it’s not hand trued. Just cut our and that’s it. Some of the edges were a little sharp too.I double stick taped some sand paper down to my table saw top and trued it up.

I'm a StewMac patron through and through. I regularly buy their high quality tools and will continue to. As most know, their inventive spirit and top notch quality often allows them to develop a monopoly on luthier tools and they are justifiably able to set their prices at whatever they wish. But I am also a deliberative shopper, so I ended up searching amazon for alternatives when I saw how much a precision notched straightedge was going for. Most of the competitors on Amazon had horrid stories in the reviews... except this one. So I took a chance, pulled the trigger, and now have a quality notched straightedge for a fraction of the cost. I checked its straightness against a precision straightedge and found it to be perfect with no light shining through at any location. The metal is solid, thick, rigid, durable, and I dig the brushed finish.