Cutting Fret Slots CHEAP!

[@TheAlanSaunders]

Thank you Jeff! I am currently designing my own, simple DIY fret cutting jig and your design has helped me. Currently, I only need a new fretboard for a 120 year-old Italian Mandolin. BTW, unlike many other demonstrations by so-called 'luthiers', you actually know how to use a saw! I have a quality fine tooth, tenon (back) saw that I purchased in ~1962 but I am loathe to modify it. Rather than grind off the teeth, perhaps, clamp it in a vice to reduce the 'set'. After a few trial compressions it should only be necessary to rotate the vice handle to the pre-determined position. Alan - UK

[@samuelbose1493]

I decided on making a cigar box guitar with a resonator and reverb springs with a humbucker pickup on top, so far I’ve formed the cone of the resonator but I made the peak of the cone look like an spade (♠️) and then I gave it ‘A’ sound holes so it would look like the ace of spades. It’s pretty dope and I’m excited to finish it. But anyways I found a cool yard stick that I wanna make a fretboard out of but I don’t have any fancy fret tools. This video helped a lot thank you

[@amgauctions29musicgearandm31]

Thanks Jeff !!!

[@E-BikingAdventures]

Thanks. Good stuff. I always love the challenge of being efficent and frugal.

[@hughanderson7285]

Cool. I’d make the box a bit tighter. It would be easier and more accurate. Ever-so slightly.

[@TheAlanSaunders]

I disagree, having gone to the trouble to make a jig for the current project, ideally it should accommodate possible future projects such as a twelve-string guitar. A pair of vertical clamps and/or horizontal pairs of counter wedges would hold the workpiece securely.