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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:20 pm 
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jeff.scott wrote:
I am also about to start fretting a board ... my first build ... a fret virgin ..lol.

TWO QUESTION:

1. Some people above have mentioned CA glue. I'm not familiar with this. What is CA?

2. I too had trouble with practise frets popping up at the ends, should I use YELLOW CARPENTERS' glue (this is all I have). I too will be using a press and possibly a clamp.

Thanks,

J



Jeff,
CA = super glue.

And as far as the second part, I found I wasn't radiusing near enough to keep the sides in, with those 3 frets (all my whopping amount of experience doing it correctly) I put the fret on the unslotted portion of the fretboard to make sure the sides were at a downward arch and left the middle with a gap from the fretboard radius just ever so slightly. It worked for me! Here are some pics of how it turned out with natural light on the guitar.
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However, I am probably not the best person to talk about fretwork with lol.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:21 pm 
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I did learn a VALUABLE lesson, never fret a guitar with the neck on the body again.
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