Frustration-free, ultra-precision guitar tools that elevate your guitar repair results and playing experiences.

Hey, I’m Bernie, founder and mad scientist behind FretGuru. 

FretGuru started as a personal mission to create the absolute most precise, functional, innovative, and intuitive-to-use guitar tools possible —  to elevate your results and eliminate the frustration.

I’ve spent decades professionally working on guitars with an obsessive attention to detail. FretGuru is all about new and unique solutions that help you get “magic” out of any guitar.

It’s always been my goal to help guitars feel and sound the best they can. The best compliment I often received was when clients told me their fresh guitar setup or repair felt like a natural extension of themselves, allowing their creativity and musical joy to flow like never before.

This is what I’m committed to helping you create — whether for yourself, or your clients.
Whether it’s your first time experimenting with guitar repairs or you’re a veteran luthier, there are a lot of guitar tools out there vying for your attention and paychecks. The problem is many of them don’t live up to their promises or clunkier to use in practice than the sales pitch says. I understand the frustration of using so-called “precision” tools that waste your time and give disappointing results for both you and the guitar. 

That’s why FretGuru is uncompromising in our commitment to ultra-precision and innovative design in the realm of guitar repair and luthier tools.

We've spent countless hours developing and testing our tools with help and input from the most demanding luthiers, guitar techs and players from around the world. 

The result?

FretGuru tools deliver a level of accuracy and performance that surpasses "professional-grade" standards, promising superior results for guitar setup, repair and fretwork.

Before any FretGuru tool sees the light of day, it has to satisfy our near-impossible standards.

From our best-in-class Dagger 2.0 Fret Crowning Files to our unmatched Ultra-Precision Fret Leveling Beams, every FretGuru tool is crafted with meticulous, obsessive attention to detail and a commitment to excellence. You can be confident that when you buy a FretGuru product, it will provide hyper-accurate results on every guitar it touches — saving both time and money in the long run.

We’re not a big corporate guitar endeavor trying to sell you a shop’s worth of gimmicky tools, sometimes in slightly different variations, that can: 

  1. quickly empty your wallet 

  2. leave middling results that necessitate time-consuming rework / extra work 

  3. collect dust taking up valuable work space.

At FretGuru, we create the highest performance, heirloom-quality tools possible — all while keeping the cost within reach of fellow luthiers and passionate guitar geeks. We only expand our catalog of tools when we’ve achieved next-level improvements beyond any existing tools currently available. 

With all of that said, remember to beware of counterfeits and cheap knock-offs — our tools are often imitated but never duplicated.

Experience the difference with the World’s Finest Precision Guitar Tools only FretGuru can offer. You and your guitar deserve only the best.