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SteveSmith

Post subject: Re: Dressing the fret ends

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:34 pm

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Hesh wrote:

Rod True wrote:

Great info.

I've been using a homemade version of the Stew Mac fret beveling file http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/To ... _File.html

At 35* I think this is still too much of a bevel and think I'll make a new holder for the file at somewhere around 15* which will keep more real estate for the string benders

15 degrees sounds more like what we do and should work nicely. Sorry I don't have a number for you we've never actually measured it.

I modified my home-made fret-beveling file to 15 degrees and I've used on the last two that I've done. I like it.

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