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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on March 22, 2011 at 4:39am

NICE idea! I see you have the Japanese flush cut saw from Harbor, so they also sell cheap yardsticks. VERY interesting.

 

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Low Budget Luthier on March 22, 2011 at 8:07am

i been tellin folks about that jap saw for years......dont go frettin w/o one

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Permalink Reply by Richard G Caudill on March 22, 2011 at 11:17am

I betcha he set the depth when he cut the slots ,, bottoms out on his "yardsticks"     hope he done it this way as i am a gonna make one just like !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Sharecropper on March 22, 2011 at 4:08pm

Richard G Caudill said:

I betcha he set the depth when he cut the slots ,, bottoms out on his "yardsticks"     hope he done it this way as i am a gonna make one just like !!!!!!!!!!!!!   I eye balled the depth and then set it by cutting a fretboard in it . Take care cutting" straight" down from your mark. The bottom of the cut is what your scale will be! My cuts in the yardstick are about a 1/4 inch deep. Don't count on the yardstick as a stop. It's way to easy to cut through!!  I expect  this jig will wear out over time and get less accurate. But I think I'll get a lot of fretboards out of it before that !!!!!! 

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Permalink Reply by Bluzmann on March 23, 2011 at 8:31am

What did you use to cut the notches so that they are not too wide?

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Permalink Reply by Sharecropper on February 2, 2012 at 7:59am

  I used the Harbor Freight japanese flush cut saw , the same saw many use to cut their fret slots .  Better get two the one you use on this project won't be good for cutting fret slots with any more ! 

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Permalink Reply by Bill Harbour on February 2, 2012 at 5:56am

How did you make sure your saw slot was perpendicular to the plane of the miter box?

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Permalink Reply by Sharecropper on February 2, 2012 at 8:05am

 The cuts are made when the two halfs of yardstick are flush at the uncut ends and clamped to EACH OTHER .  So cuts are made on both halfs at the same time .

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