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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 19, 2011 at 3:01pm

Good idea. Interesting.

 

Not to burst your bubble and all but I would say that it works much better with Illustrator tho. Being vector graphics vs bitmap, you get the advantage of scaling much cleaner than with photoshops bilinear or bicubic resampling.

 

Good tutorial tho! Very well thought out and Very well presented.

 

Also, no matter what app you use, DO INDEED print out the scale template and check the measurements! My printer is off 98.7%, so I need to increase the scale length by 101.3%.

 

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Tate Chmielewski on August 19, 2011 at 8:20pm

Yeah illustrator can surely be used too, I haven't had any problems from photoshop and of course gotta check that its printing the right size. I measure from the nut line to the 12th fret.. so far on mine its always just right

Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates said:

Good idea. Interesting.

 

Not to burst your bubble and all but I would say that it works much better with Illustrator tho. Being vector graphics vs bitmap, you get the advantage of scaling much cleaner than with photoshops bilinear or bicubic resampling.

 

Good tutorial tho! Very well thought out and Very well presented.

 

Also, no matter what app you use, DO INDEED print out the scale template and check the measurements! My printer is off 98.7%, so I need to increase the scale length by 101.3%.

 

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Mike Bingham on August 20, 2011 at 2:15am

Pretty slick!

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on August 20, 2011 at 2:31am

Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

 

Nice, but too much work.

 

 

AFKAM

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Permalink Reply by Tate Chmielewski on August 20, 2011 at 9:25am

hundred different ways to get to the same end :D

Artist Formerly Known as Matt said:

Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

 

Nice, but too much work.

 

 

AFKAM

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 20, 2011 at 12:10pm

Thank God you said Fretjob :-P

 

 

MAAAAAAAAAATT, when we gonna meet!!!! Hey I might be traveling to Raleigh this week. Will email ya.

 

Artist Formerly Known as Matt said:

Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

 

Nice, but too much work.

 

 

AFKAM

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