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Filippo

I would get the one for the big fretwire. It will be a bit loose to get a clean cut on the smaller fretwire, but if you can slip a small strand of copper wire in there as a shim it might work like a charm. If shimming doesn't work it would be back to the file or buy the other one.

Steve

I bought the medium size a few years ago. I use Stewmac's medium fretwire on guitars and narrow on ukuleles. It trims both sizes fine.
This is one of the few dedicated "luthier tools" that I would definitely buy again

I like (and have bought) a lot of Stew-Mac's stuff but I made my own nippers from a Radio Shack sheet metal nibbler several years ago and it's still going strong. For $47 bucks I could make 3 of them.

Me too.

I also made one - only took about 5 minutes with a Dremel cutoff wheel

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Steve Smith
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Instructions on modding it are in the MIMF library.

I made one from a Harbor Freight nipper. I need to deepen the slot, but it works fine too. I do, however, have to use it only in one direction, or it will bend the fret slightly. I think I was less than perfect in my grooving of the plate.

I think the nipper, itself, was less than $5.00.

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