Caleb
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2025
Very nice kit. Everything works like it should. Very easy to use and figure out. Very well made and a must have when working on your guitar. However it does have some sharp edges but I just sanded them a bit
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2024
Happy with this purchase.Glad they are offered in this price/ condition.Spent an hour deburring these but I expected that at this price.Use a piece of glass to check flatness and sand against if you need it to be perfectly flat.A cheap debur whip will clean up most problem edges
Stephan Peters
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
When you buy this, you are not getting a Stew Mac Luthier set. That would be like comparing Harbor Freight to Snap-On. But the pricing is also comparable.The Fret Leveling gauge is really nice. It's the best tool in the set.The action gauge is also nice.The notched straight-edge has sharp edges. I filed mine smooth with a smooth cut mill file. This can be done while preserving the straightness.The radius gauges are thin, I am not sure they are all marked correctly, but they work.The feeler gauge set is more useful to a machinist or mechanic than a luthier, it has many sizes you will never use and is missing sizes you might want.Overall, a pretty good set. It could be better.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on March 19, 2024
Be very careful using this and it will scratch your guitar or get yourself cut and I think they put a liter of oil to prevent rust VERY GREASY OILY no thanks returned
Ken Pritchard
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2024
A bunch of folks are complaining about the sharp edges on the tools. Just ran them quickly over a stationary fine wire wheel to de-burr. Took less than 5 minutes and they're all smooth and fine. All the tools seem accurate. Great value.
Rick Belt
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023
If the price seems too good to be true, it is. I threw away $30 on this kit. Poorly machined. Very dangerous sharp edges and burrs. You’ll cut yourself and damage your instrument. The feeler gauge set is OK. I kept it, but the rest went to a donation center. So I have a $30 feeler gauge worth $8.
James
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
I bought this set to set up my banjitar, bit the scale length isn't right for it, but that's on me. I didn't check the banjitar scale length against the kit before I purchased it, but fortunately I have an army of guitars, and it works great for them. Definitely a great purchase. The edges could have been rounded a little better as they are rather sharp, but I definitely recommend this kit if you're one that likes to set up your own instruments.
ohio sam
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022
This straight edge and fretrocker seem pretty decent and work well. The radius gauges are adequate but the imprinted writing doesn’t look like it will last a long time so I sharpied the measurements on .The only critique I have is that all of these tools have moderately sharp edges that will need smoothed over, I used a kitchen Scotch-Brite pad.For the price , I have no disappointments.
Paul W.
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
Some of these things are better than others. I was pleasantly surprised that the notched fretboard ruler were fret rocker were dead straight and without burrs. The edges are fairly sharp but you can dull them if you want, or just be careful with it. BTW someone complained that the ruler is a bit short, and you have to place it starting after the first fret. I think that's intentional, because that region of the fretboard is different from the rest of the fretboard, and may slope up (thicken) toward the nut to support it. (If you had a fretboard like that and a full-length ruler, that ramped bit of the fretboard would keep you from setting the ruler flat against the rest of fretboard.) WARNINGS: I found that the overstring radius gauge for high radii (14-20) with wide slot spacing was MISLABELED... the labels for 7.25 and 12 were swapped, so I taped over those and wrote the correct dimensions on the tape. The understring (inverted T-shaped) radius gauges also have at least one dimensional error: the gauges labeled 15 and 17 have the same radius, so at least one of them is wrong, and maybe the 16 as well. (I have two sets and am not sure which came with this kit, but they've both got a problem here. In one, the gauges labeled 15,16, and 17 have identical curvature. In the other, the one labeled 16 is more curved than both the 15 and 17. Go figure. The bottom line is that these are cheap tools and if you need to make fine distinctions like a radius of 15 vs 16 inches, you should check the accuracy of the curves. That's pretty easy to do by improvising a large compass with a strip of cardboard, a pushpin for a pivot, and little holes at the relevant distances from the pivot. Draw some curves and see if the tools match.
garytcayton
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2021
The kit is ok But the neck straight edge tool doesn’t really work on a regular scale neck
Customer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2021
This kit is great, it contains all the specialist tools you need to setup most guitars. I would have given 5 stars but one of the radius gauges had the wrong sizes cut into it, luckily the thinner one was fine so I was able to use that instead, but worth double checking before first use
Jackdaw Jayne Studios
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2021
These tools will work well to make up a starter luthier kit but I can see myself replacing all of these tools for much better quality ones later on.
Cipp Marian
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2021
Finally i can do proper setups on my guitars!The ruler is sturdy, i think 3mm thick, the other parts are nice, but you have to be careful as some of them have some sharp edges.That multigauge thing with lots of blades is oily as heck, you'll have to wash it a lot.Overall a solid 9/10