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Thread: Decided to build another guitar
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23rd January 2015, 12:35 PM #16
you can buy slotted and radiused fretboards from stewmac at a fair price
at the same time get a few other odds and ends to help spread the shock of the frieght
they have a wide range of very useful gadgets - i have quite a few that are pure goldray c
dunno what's more fun, buyin' the tools or usin' em'
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27th January 2015, 12:49 PM #17GOLD MEMBER
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Hi again, and thanks for your comments and suggestions.
After googling around a bit I found this fretboard template on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-M-I-dual-f.../261587875951?
Ok, now my question to the experts here. I dont want to spend a few hundred dollars to buy a mitre box. I have a good De Walt Table saw. Any suggestions as to how to set myself up in order to use this template,.??
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Paul
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27th January 2015, 02:00 PM #18Member
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It`s pretty easy to make one. I have just completed one...cost....nothing. A few screws, some perspex, very little timber and an old saw that I reversed, flattened the set in the teeth and araldited some timber and perspex strips to the sides. Slides quite nicely..perspex to perspex. I only have to shim under the perspex on the box to adjust the height...very easy. Here is a few pics of the set up.....cheers, GraemeDSCF6705.jpgDSCF6706.jpgDSCF6707.jpg
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27th January 2015, 08:08 PM #19GOLD MEMBER
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Hey there Graeme,
And thanks for being so helpfull with your comments and photos. Ok, so how would I/you go about using that template on that ebay site, in your mitre box,..?
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Paul
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28th January 2015, 08:01 PM #20Member
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I`m not sure about that. I do think those template thingies are mainly used on a bench saw with the small narrow fret slotting blade. When I mark out a fret board, I just work off the nut/zero datum line and mark out the positions. I reckon I`m probably within 1/2mm..so that`s close enough for me. I just thought that you could clamp the metre rule to the FB with a couple of those plastic springy jobbies (black with fluoro pads on the jaws)....I will do that next build. cheers, BTW...I made my pipe for bending sides today. Cartridge heater in pipe, packed with foil etc.....works like a charm...gets hot pretty quick. Looking forward to bending some side now.
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25th February 2015, 04:23 PM #21GOLD MEMBER
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No I haven't given up,....!!!
Hi all,
No I didn't give up on the project I just put it aside for a while. Now I have made two jigs to help me with the fretboard, cutting the slots and also sanding a nice 12 inch radius. Firstly I have to thank a site called SixGunGuitars for the idea for the fret slot cutting jig. I must email the chap there and thank him. To make this jig I had a plastic and signs factory at Coffs Harbour make me up a plastic template on their CNC router which would be totally accurate. I sent them the measurements down to two decimal places of 1 mm between fret cuts. Each fret cut was 1mm wide and 2.5mm deep. The whole trick to this is a small key which I made .95 mm thick and protrudes up 2mm through the bed of the jig and grabs onto each slot. Each slot is then replicated above. So hence the 22 frets are cut without measuring anything,.....brilliant,..!
Here are the pics, they are pretty self explanatory to follow. I'll do another post under this one and show you the jig I just finished making for the 12 inch radius curve.
Paul
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25th February 2015, 04:35 PM #22GOLD MEMBER
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12 inch radius jig
Hi again,
Part 2. This is the jig I have had in the back of my head for a while now and finally it was made. The trick here is the top of the radius on the sanding cradle has to be level with the top of the sides on the jig. Then you keep sanding and when the legs of the sanding cradle rest on the shelf below you should have a nice even and smooth 12 inch radius. I used 120 grit sandpaper glued to the concave 12 inch radius inside the sanding cradle. I then put another piece of felt backed 240 grit sandpaper and went over it again. Oh yes I forgot to mention, I clamp the neck in initially so that the top of the fretboard is flush level with the top of the sides. Just run a piece of timber across the sides and get the top of the fretboard flush and then tighten my clamps.
Pretty happy with this, I have even re salvaged the neck that I totally mucked up. I sanded the incorrect fret slots out of it, had a couple of thin slices of the same timber laying around and glued/laminated them together, see how it goes anyway.
Paul
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25th February 2015, 04:35 PM #23
Beware of the jigs & templates, the multiple like wire coat hangers, soon you will need a new shed just to store them.Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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25th February 2015, 08:25 PM #24GOLD MEMBER
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Your right Cliff,
I had to free up some shelving space just to sit these two jigs on,
Paul
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