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Robbie O'Brien
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:38 pm 
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Recently I started a new series called Luthier Tips du Jour mailbag. These are questions that I get from viewers around the world. I decided to address these in the new series called mailbag. Here is the second one and it comes from a viewer in Italy that had some questions about fret ends sticking out past the fretboard

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nyazzip
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i made a set of "emory boards" using popsicle sticks with different grits of sandpaper on them that work quite well for the trickier/tighter parts where a file is awkward. i also cut the tangs off a couple files and smoothed the edges over, after dinging up a few headstocks, so they are "safer"
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Robbie O'Brien
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nyazzip wrote:
i made a set of "emory boards" using popsicle sticks with different grits of sandpaper on them that work quite well for the trickier/tighter parts where a file is awkward. i also cut the tangs off a couple files and smoothed the edges over, after dinging up a few headstocks, so they are "safer"
cheers


Nice tip. Thanks for sharing!
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