Metallion Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Looking for fret Press inserts with Radiuses that I have not found anywhere, 8", 17" and 430mm (JEM) Does anyone make them, delivers to EU? About 6mm (.25") x 95 x 15mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKro Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Looking for fret Press inserts with Radiuses that I have not found anywhere, 8", 17" and 430mm (JEM) Does anyone make them, delivers to EU? About 6mm (.25") x 95 x 15mm. What width Fret do you want? I have a friend that does machine work at home (he's retired) may be able to get him to do it. I'm assuming that the press inserts are standard for a stewmac size other than the radius? Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herrie Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 ask your local technical school, they often did small projects like this for me too before I got my own CNC. OR you could make a flexible caul... from some kind of hard rubber or polyurethane or something... the material needs to have just enough 'give' to conform to the right radius of the fretboard but stiff enough to do the actual 'pressing' If you make it 6 inch radius, it presses the ends in first and then the outer ends of the caul 'bend' upwards to a flatter radius until the frets are seated nicely over the entire fretboard width. extremely handy for fretting a compound radius or refretting fretboards with a 3D complex radius :-) I will post pictures of mine within a few weeks when we have moved in the new workshop and everything is setup again. good luck ! Henny Guitargear.be Belgium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chonker Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 I like that idea, been wondering how to go about fretting a compound scale guitar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallion Posted June 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 (edited) Looking for fret Press inserts with Radiuses that I have not found anywhere, 8", 17" and 430mm (JEM) Does anyone make them, delivers to EU? About 6mm (.25") x 95 x 15mm. What width Fret do you want? I have a friend that does machine work at home (he's retired) may be able to get him to do it. I'm assuming that the press inserts are standard for a stewmac size other than the radius? Mike Well it says 95mm here, 3.74" width, 0.25" thick, 0.6" high - for the 430mm, 17" and 7" radius. Maybe 10" too. More options if the price is right. And they're wider than stewmac's for wider necks. Edited June 21, 2008 by Metallion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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