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Comment by Uncle John on July 15, 2011 at 12:23pm

Well, good save and they look cool as can be.

Comment by Bama Jelley on July 15, 2011 at 10:39am

Thanks for the comment. As you can tell from the picture, I went a bit crazy with the router on the front of the neck and bit off more than I originally intended to. This was my first attempt using fret wire. I just cut them a little longer than the width of the neck and installed them in the slots. Then I clamped a piece of scrap wood to the top of the neck and used some pliers to bend the excess down a bit to match the radius on the edges of the neck. From there, I cut them to length and used a file to taper them down. Mark Bliss has some pics in one of his threads where he shows how he does it. I do it basically the same way, but added the bending them down with pliers. The frets were tough and took a while to do. No two of them are exactly the same. I am not completely happy with them, but must resist the urge to do any more filing on them. Notice there are no close up pics of the frets. LOL.

Comment by Uncle John on July 14, 2011 at 12:09pm

Very nice guitar.  How did you do the frets like that???  The nice taper.