Fret material

[basscat]

Greeting
The frets of my SR5 seem to take alot of beeting despite the fact that I use stainless steel round wounds and play a fair amount of slap and pop. Does anyone know what kind of fret wire that's used on the Musicman basses?

Basscat

 

[Derek]

The Fret material is called nickle silver.
Stainless Steel strings are more abusive
to the frets then the nickle round wound strings.
Thanks

Derek

 

[basscat]

Thanks Derek. I've considered moving to nickel for the reason you gave but I always return to steel to get that extra bite. I think the frets hold up pretty well anyway .

Basscat