Have you had a refret to stainless and did it change the sound at all?

[Jimbilly]

I had a lower price guitar recently with stainless frets, it sounded a bit 'jangly' and maybe a bit bright?  A friend is going to get a refret on his wonderful sounding Larrivee acoustic and considering stainless frets because this guitar gets a lot of use, but messing with the tone is not something he wants to do.  

 

[The Shark]

Just now, Jimbilly said:

I had a lower price guitar recently with stainless frets, it sounded a bit 'jangly' and maybe a bit bright?  A friend is going to get a refret on his wonderful sounding Larrivee acoustic and considering stainless frets because this guitar gets a lot of use, but messing with the tone is not something he wants to do.  

 

I hate stainless frets.  They do sound different.  Brighter...

 

[HSB0531]

8 minutes ago, Jimbilly said:

I had a lower price guitar recently with stainless frets, it sounded a bit 'jangly' and maybe a bit bright?  A friend is going to get a refret on his wonderful sounding Larrivee acoustic and considering stainless frets because this guitar gets a lot of use, but messing with the tone is not something he wants to do.  

 

Yep...re-fretting with Stainless always gives a harder edge sound.....😉

[murkat]

Stainless will have a bright, “ting” tone.

[HSB0531]

16 hours ago, murkat said:

Stainless will have a bright, “ting” tone.

You know when I made my comment I was joking about a "harder edge sound", but it turns out I guess it's true!

Edited March 12 by HSB0531

[Jimbilly]

I'm guessing it might give an acoustic a more Taylor-ish sound, which is desirable to many, and should be easy to "tone down"?

The Eart headless I got on the weekend has them, so I've had two low price guitars with ss frets now, so smooth, and a little 'bright' sounding

I think I would like them on most basses

[Jakeboy]

When I had my Korina Artist refretted  I went with SS and just love them. Yes, a touch more zing or “ting” lol, but that is easy for me to dial out. When my Ultimate needs a refret I’ll go SS…..heck I’ll go stainless on all guitar regrets going forward. They play so easy and will outlast my sorry ass….