Tonetech. UK Distributor for Jescar Fret Wire

Tonetech are proud to be appointed the UK distributor for Jescar Fret wire. Jescar have taken the US market by storm and supply the majority of the top US luthiers. Here’s a little background to Jescar’s products.

Jescar developed their engineering expertise through the production of nickel free wire for the ophthalmic industry, catering for nickel allergy consumers. They already supplied the US guitar industry with polishing compounds and logically moved in to making Fretwire. Many users of traditional fret wire found that the variation in the profile dimensions created additional work as fret dressing and re-crowning was required to achieve level frets.

Jescar use new state of the art German manufacturing machinery and tooling to achieve a higher level of precision wire shaping and profiling. The result is a new standard in fret wire manufacturing. This is why the world’s highest quality guitar manufacturers and luthiers have specified Jescar fret wire for their instruments.

The wire is made from 18% nickel silver, also called “German Silver.” But even with 18% nickel silver, there are differences in hardness, tensile strength, surface quality, grain size, and other metallurgical properties that influence a fret’s quality, performance and feel.

Jescar’s state of the art processing delivers:

• Stringent quality control of tensile strength, hardness, dimension, and composition
• Exact symmetry of profile with centered and perpendicular with Tolerances accurate to within +/- 0.002”
• Barbs with sharp highly defined points to bite into the fret slots and remain securely seated.
• Superfinish surface quality for a bright appearance and smooth finish and greater hardness and tighter grain structure for longer life and playability