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I am doing my first neck with white limba and honduran rosewood and they are hard to work with, that combined with dull chisels and hand planes dont make it a fun time. I was thinking ebony would be a good choice for a fretboard wood.
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I'm working on my first ever guitar build and I am slotting the neck. It's a very hard task to complete with a miter box and a fret saw and scale template for the frets. I would consider for the future getting the stew mac fret slotting jig but thats over 2oo dollars. Not a wise investment for a tool I'd only be using once in a while. For my first guitar, I will have to learn from my mistakes of fret slotting but how? I've considered a few ways, building a jig w/the indexing pin stew mac provided with my fret ruler, manually measure everything out or cut it with the jig with a table saw. I am getting a membership at a woodworking shop that provides me 2 hour blocks of full access to the workshop and tools. Every luthier doesn't have a perfect first guitar, yet I can learn from my mistakes. Where can I be pointed for guidance?
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So my dad told me why not look for a workshop that you can rent out time and space for and I found one in Baltimore Maryland which is a 30 minute drive from my house and they have classes and open shop rental and I am so happy that I found this!!
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tools for exact and accurate fret slotting?
PRSpoggers replied to PRSpoggers's topic in Tools and Shop Chat
Fret slotting -
Ah so there may have to be another birthday gift to add to the list for me! Gosh and I want another amp! Hopefully that miter box from stew mac will do me well. But for my first time is using a regular miter box fine?
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I assume most people on the forum are from across the pond! I met someone else on here from the same county actually!! But that is really reassuring!
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I did my first ever slotting of a fingerboard yesterday and today I have to refill 6 or 7 slots because they don't exactly line up with my fret template that I am using. What tools are there that can do it like really fast and accurately without breaking the bank?
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is it ok to make mistakes the first time? I had to fill about 6 indicating slots because they didn't line up. I'm going to have my dad recut those for me because I don't have the steadiest hands.
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I mean for the most part, I only had to refill about 6 slots which is fine, it's gonna get covered by the fretwire anyway, but for the rest of them they are all pretty dead center. For the future, how do I make this easier?
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I refilled them and they look great! A little darker since my rosewood dust is dark, but I just need to recut them and we're in business. I'll have my dad do that since I don't want to waste a perfectly good fretboard that has just indicating slots, not actual cut to depth slots currently.
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These are my current slots, I tried lining them up the best I could
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So most of my notches on the fretboard are center, I will post pics of what I am talking about
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Ok so I will measure and refill and adjust accordingly!
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Ok so thats good to know! I may have to refill like two notches because they aren't center. But all the rest of them line up and are in the ball park in the area of the notch (this is a half circle notch from stew mac for a fret scale length calculator.) so that's fun! I'm not supposed to get everything right the first time right?
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Ok thats great! I mean your first guitar isn't supposed to be perfect? Heck I'm going off what Paul Reed Smith did for his first (simple mahogany body and neck SC guitar)
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I'm using medium fretwire. I'm not necessarily measuring but I am lining up the notches up with the slot for my saw and just cut. I mean if they line up they line up. This is my first guitar, and mistakes are meant to happen. Question is, if wrongly cut my slots and I went on not knowing I did, will the guitar play poorly? I have my cuts in line with the notches on the fret scale template and my dad said they look fine. But from what I'm doing now and just decided to go on, will anything go wrong with the guitar?
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It doesnt say but I have them lined up for the most part. I ran them through a miter box with a scale attached on the bottom so the wood is on top for cutting and I matched the notches up with the space for where my fretting saw goes and just cut. They line up fairly fine, not dead in the center but they line up within the notch.
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I cut them through a miter box and used a template that I taped the wood too and the slots line up with the notches on the scale length ruler but some of them I have to redo because they aren't exactly on there, or I just cut the new slot which will I hope cover the slot I originally cut which is like really tiny space wise. I'm just worried that I didn't do it right because this is my first time doing a fretboard slotting I could've messed up. I can fix it with thin super glue and rosewood dust but still, do my cuts have the within where the notch is or do they have to be dead on straight down the middle of the notch? (I am using the stewmac 25.5 inch scale length ruler for frets)
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I read on the internet that you are supposed to slot your fretboard first and then radius it and I am doing a fairly flatter radius (16 or 17 inches) and was wondering, do I slot first, then glue my fretboard on then radius?
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How deep do I set my fret saw stopper?
PRSpoggers replied to PRSpoggers's topic in Tools and Shop Chat
What would be a measurement for that? I got medium stew mac fret wire as well if that will help with measurements for you -
I am attempting my first ever neck from the ground up and need to cut fret slots. I have the stew mac japanese fret saw and depth stop. However, how much do I set my fret stopper to the depths that a fret will seat? I am doing a 17 inch radius so fairly flat. I heard half the thickness of the board for fret cutting but I don't know. I consulted trade secrets and that kind of helped me.
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So I am going to thin it down with isopropyl alcohol, will it then be able to penetrate the wood? And will the wood grain (my guitar has a flame veneer on it) still show after thinning said paint?
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so can I still use it if I thin it down?
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I got black and brown oil paint for wood to finish my kit guitar but they're both thick and goopy looking oil paints. I read that you can use rubbing alcohol to thin oil paint, so will that thin it and will it be able to stain without like ruining it and not showing the figuring?
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In the process of staining my kit!
PRSpoggers replied to PRSpoggers's topic in In Progress and Finished Work
Sorry I didn't know you could do that!
