Built a fret miter box yesterday, here are some pics

jeffrodite · Post by **jeffrodite** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:30 am

Well, after looking at the Stew Mac and LMI catalogs while sitting on the throne night after night, I decided that it would be much more cost effective to build a fret miter box myself. I got the basic ideas from Brian Howard (thanks for the advice a while back!). Here are a few step by step photos of how it went down:

jeffrodite · Post by **jeffrodite** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:39 am

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jeffrodite · Post by **jeffrodite** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:41 am

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B. Howard · Post by **B. Howard** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:55 pm

Doesn't it feel good to make your own tools? Nice job, now I'll need to make a nicer looking one.....

tippie53 · Post by **tippie53** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:55 am

jeffrodite · Post by **jeffrodite** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:35 pm

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Kevin Sjostrand · Post by **Kevin Sjostrand** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:41 pm

Good Jeff, I hope it works well for you.
I just bought a plastic miter box from Lowes for $3.00 and adapted that, it also works great.
Do you have a fretboard template from LMI or Stewmac to use with that box?

Kevin

jeffrodite · Post by **jeffrodite** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:50 pm

I still need to grab a template. LMI has ones on close out right now. The center line is just ever so slightly off center.

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Built a fret miter box yesterday, here are some pics

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