Ways To Bend Pre Cut Frets?

[killemall8]

how can yo bend pre cut frets? like the ones that dunlop sells that are just straight 3" pieces? i cant think of any way to radius them

[Inisheer]

Carefully, by hand. For the project I'm working on I just carefully laid a piece of fret wire into a slot and then bent it slowly to conform to the shape. It is not as fast as using one of those fancy wire bending tools, but it should work ok. If an experienced person like me could do it, I'm sure you can handle it. You've done several necks now, how have you done it before? Are you just wanting to try something new with pre-cut frets?

[killemall8]

Carefully, by hand. For the project I'm working on I just carefully laid a piece of fret wire into a slot and then bent it slowly to conform to the shape. It is not as fast as using one of those fancy wire bending tools, but it should work ok. If an experienced person like me could do it, I'm sure you can handle it. You've done several necks now, how have you done it before? Are you just wanting to try something new with pre-cut frets?

i always had pre radiused frets. i dont think i can bend xj frets that short by hand. i think they are too stiff.

[Bizzar_Guitars]

I used two pairs of side cutters which have been ground flush (I used these to trim the frets flush to the fretboard after they've been installed), to grip the tang at either end and manually bend them into a slightly tighter radius than the fretboard.

Ciao,

Garth

[ihocky2]

Not sure how well it would work, but you could just the fret bender that is covered in the tutorials, the one where you cut a piece of wood to the proper radius and then cut a groove in it. The short lengths would be stiff, but that might a little easier than bending with pliers.