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I just wanted annouce that today I received my first shipment of Menzerna buffing products and some fretwire. So for those interested these are the products I have and the prices:

W18 - Medium Polishing Bar (3 lbs)...$21 each
W16 - Fine Polishing Bar (3 lbs).....$21 each
Intensive Polish Liquid (16 oz)......$15

Fretwire - I just brought in one size on this first order but also brought a bit of stainless in the same size if anyone wants to try it. I am!

Fretwire

.080 Crown, .043 high, .020 tangwidth
18% nickel/silver.......$1.05/ft
Stainless Steel.........$1.25/ft

Buying in 100 foot lengths or by the pound would be quite a bit less expensive but I need to have a minimum of 25 pounds of the same size before I made this 'bulk' order. For reference you will need about 4 feet for one guitar, if you are careful!

I am also excited to inform you all that I will be distributing Gotoh Tuners as well as the Sperzel's I already carry. The current deal that Peter has on the go is in bulk packaging, mine will be in consumer packaging and pricing will be competative with the big suppliers. I will wait until you all have the group buy dealt with to add this to the website and inform you all of the pricing and models I will carry.

I will have these currently new products up on my website in a few days once the new purflings and bindings I expect any day have arrived.

Thanks for your continued support, and I hope that these are products that you all will find useful.

Shane

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Canada

S'about time someone carried the "Intensive Polish"! Well done.
I've been using that stuff for a while(recommended to me by Jeff at Target Finishes). A great final step that I see missing in many other's finishes.

How many feet of wire in a pound of stainless?

Mario39017.9760763889

Outstanding! I'll probably be dropping you a line on the SS.

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Shane, i'd like to hear more about the intensive polish liquid, can this stuff replace the polishing bars alone or is it applied after the usage of the 2 bars, an inquiring mind would really like to know please?

Serge, after.... It's the last touch, I use a dedicated buff for just that one. Find your softest, old buff, wash it, and use it just for this. This step isn't necessary, and is a bit anal, really, but it can make that last bit of difference.

It'll also show if your sanding technique isn't just so <bg>

Thanks bud, i guess i'll add this to my growing supply of finishing products, in fact, i might just build a couple more shelves

Thanks for the comments! I am excited about carrying (and using) these products. They are the best you can get from the research I have done. So on the fret wire. I just weighed out a pound of the stainless wire. It is 15.5 wraps at 19.5 inch in diametre. Using pye x d it works out to about 79 feet. Stewmac lists a similiarly sized wire in NS as 68 feet in a pound. So I don't know if stainless is lighter or my math is wrong but that is what I come up with.

I can drop the price on a per pound basis but I would need a group of people to get together as the minimum to get the price down is a coil, and that is alot of wire!

ShaneShane Neifer39021.9914930556

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Canada

Nice Shane. You'll be hearing from me.

Hey Doug, welcome back friend, i hope you and yours are doing fine and i hope you'll be staying and posting again!

Serge