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Permalink Reply by Mike Breen on April 20, 2013 at 11:35pm

WFRET is a downloadable application for Windows computers.  

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on April 21, 2013 at 11:26am

excellent, thanx so much I'll give it a try......

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on April 20, 2013 at 11:56pm

You can download Wfet on my blog page here on CBN:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0o8hi88esk4nb

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on April 21, 2013 at 11:26am

and the same.....thanx for replying, I need all the help I can get !!!

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Permalink Reply by Scott on May 8, 2013 at 6:43am

+1 on this tool. If your computer doesn't allow you to install/run it, I also came across this online site:

http://www.tundraman.com/Guitars/FretCalc/index.php

And since I only have basic tools at my disposal, I needed a converter to 16ths of an inch:

http://syzygy.virtualave.net/webwork/javascript/decin2fr.html

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Permalink Reply by Craig Mayhem on May 8, 2013 at 6:52am

http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/

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Permalink Reply by Dan on May 8, 2013 at 9:15am

http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/

this one lets you plug in numbers for all dimensions, even for fanned fret board layouts. if you need pictures of a fanned fret board, my pictures are here http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/fanned-fret-board

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Permalink Reply by Robbie on June 4, 2018 at 11:53pm

Are the same templates good to use on a banjo neck?

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Permalink Reply by Br Harold F Stubbs III on June 5, 2018 at 8:02am

notes is notes is notes... the fret placement is all about ratios to the scale length so that the string is made just the right length when pressed into each fret so that the proper pitch is sounded when the string is actuated ( typically towards the bridge side in what would be called a strum unless a bow is used ) - an instrument with (for example) a 25" scale length would have frets in the same place / use the same template no matter if it was a banjo or a canjo or a guitar or whatever that thing is that doesn't quite fit more common descriptions.

It is all about the scale length - the distance between the nut and the bridge. 

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on June 5, 2018 at 10:29am

I google "fret interval calculator", and the top result (for me) is the StewMac site. Tap in scale length, number of frets, and you get a table. I then screenshot the table (got an album from 18" to 27"!), then use a 24" steel rule marked in one-tenth inches, a clamp to hold the 'zero' end to the nut slot- then a steady eye and a sharp craft knife to nick the edge of the neck from first to nineteenth fret or thereabouts. Take set square, score the fret lines- then drill out and fit the fret markers before cutting the slots and fitting the frets.

Works for me. The one time it didn't was cos I'd bollixed, of all things, the zero-th fret...

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 6, 2018 at 6:43am

Wal where did you find a steel rule marked in decimal inches?  I usually translate to metric because steel metric rules are easy to find.

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Permalink Reply by Wal Callaby on June 6, 2018 at 7:10am

Well JL, the short answer is "my local hardware store". They do all-metric too, but they do a line of 'metric one side imperial the other' rules, one edge in sixteenths and the like, the other in tenths.

What struck me early on was that scale lengths are still expressed in imperial (ever hear tell of  610mm scale guitar?), and very brief experimentation showed me that I could mark to 1/100th- or even 1/200th- of an inch better than I could to a quarter-millimetre. And I have an 18" scale three-string uke with spot-on by dog intonation right up to the nineteenth fret, so it clearly works for me.

Rural Suffolk, UK btw. If you're in the country I could source one for you should you wish...

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