Micro-Mesh Soft Pads Set

These pads are incredible! With relatively little physical effort, I was able to polish the frets on my guitar to a mirror-like finish! The foam is flexible enough to allow the pad to conform to the contours of the surface being polished and yet rigid enough to aid in distributing the pressure applied to the pad over a larger area. What the soft foam backing also does is virtually eliminate fingertip soreness. Unlike through sandpaper or non-foam-backed Micro-Mesh sheets, the hardness and/or angular nature of the surface cannot be felt through these pads, so all the negative effects caused thereby are done away with too. Of course, the pads cannot conform to sharp angles, unless you do not mind creasing them. After a long polishing session, the foam compresses and thus loses some of its rigidity, but once the pads are washed and dried, it seems to return to its original state. Unfortunately, the creases caused by bending the pads sharply remain in the surface material (not in the foam itself). Although this does not decrease the polishing effectiveness by any significant degree, those creases are the weakest points of the pads at which they are going to bend under pressure, so that is something to keep in mind. Last but not least, I was surprised by how durable the surface material is! When I was polishing the ends of the frets (which were relatively sharp on my guitar), I was certain the material would rip, but I was morally prepared to sacrifice a set of these pads to make my guitar playable. To my astonishment, the material survived without a scratch! I can see them being used to restore silverware, to polish out the scratches on a bracelet and/or crystal of a watch, to give a fountain pen a new life, and so on. These pads, particularly those with the finer grits, remove very little material per stroke, so the risk of removing too much is really low.

After seeing a video on Cory Mura's YouTube channel, I decided to buy these and clean up an old Yamaha SG copy.
The guitar is more than 20 years old and hasn't been cleaned for at least 10.
Starting with a low numbered pad (as per COry's instructions) I removed the years of grime- although I scraped the worst of it off with a blade first- and after each run of the fretboard moved up to a higher numbered pad until I had used 5 and ended with an 8000.
The result was astounding!
After the cleaning up with some lemon oil polish the fretboard shines as if it has just come out of the shop.
These pads will last a long time as I only used a centimeter of each one although I warn you that they are not too easy to cut. Make sure you have a sharp craft knife or something similar. They really do a good job though and aren't really rough enough to damage the actual frets- though be a bit careful with the lower numbered ones as they will scratch enough to shine them and this might not be what you want.
I highly recommend this product. They are so much better than using sandpaper and a block and can be cut to whatever size is optimal.
I will now be using them to polish the rest of guitars.
As for the servoce? Thomann were having serious issues and warned me that deliveries were running up to ten days behind but these still came within a week so as always, full marks for that.