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Nomad
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so in theory, once they have been radius levelled they should be near perfect, assuming I've crowned them correctly?
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That said, the difference is very small...
Assume a fingerboard radius of 300mm, fret height of 1.5mm, and board width of 44mm. The radius of the top of the fret is 301.5mm. If you work it with a 300mm radius block, then the ends of the frets will be slightly lower than the middle with respect to the fingerboard because you're applying the smaller radius block to the larger radius fret-top.
In this example, assuming everything is held perfectly, the ends of the frets will be 0.004mm (4 microns) lower than the middle. That's about 0.27% of the 1.5mm fret height. Although that's tiny, the width of the resulting flat area could be proportionately quite large, depending on the radius of the fret wire - wider at the ends compared to the centre by something around 0.1 to 0.2mm is possible.
Nomad
Nobody loves me but my mother... and she could be jivin' too...
I have my method pretty much nailed, though it's a common documented routine, marker pen (red), levelling beam, Crown file, micromesh.
I was just wondering if my levelling process could be improved.
Or... I could just be looking for a first use for my radius sanding blocks which I've had over a year now!
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On frets I use a good stone and then crown.
I wrote about this 30 years ago and still use the same method. Recently I have had two guitars in that have been Plek'd several times. They now play properly. Experience counts
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and/or
- Taking off high spots along an individual fret length. Usually it isn't the whole fret that is high. Particularly for a new fretboard, often it is high spots in random places on an individual fret. Here, you want to get rid of the high spot but not lose too much fret material in the process.
Why is this different to using a radius block to create a fretless board (which I've just done this weekend) ?
Thanks for all your input chaps.
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