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This is my cheapy / home-made fret press ... Attachment : 20200905_163503.jpg It's just a £5 Aldi-special drill press, with a home-made insert to hold a fret caul instead of a drill. Even with ...

@mattbeels Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip? Its delivered and removed by a skip loader, therefore its a skip.

Dang you guys are fast, I just saw the email and came here to post the same. Long live Melvyn Hiscock!

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment....... catchy wee tune. 🙂🎶🙏🎸

There seems to be a hell of a lot of specialist tools that just aren’t necessary @tej Avoid watching Stewmac videos with Dan Erlewine. They have a tool or jig for every problem you ever thought of, e...

The two main advantages I can see with a fret press are the noise, and that it's possible to achieve a consistency which will require less fret dressing. Hammers are cheaper, take up less space in the...

Knowing yourself is the start of wisdom' 😋 @koendb Yup, from Aristotle I believe and that adage makes me a wiseguy. Oh jeez I just can’t stop! Ba dum tissssssss

Not to mention the number of normal tools that the price is increased on just by putting the word “luthier” in front of the name 🤔 Yeah @tej. It's good to shop around in the general woodworki...

What’s wrong with pink flake? 🤷🏼‍♂️

@russ yeah it doesn’t look particularly hard or time consuming. There seems to be a hell of a lot of specialist tools that just aren’t necessary unless you’re trying to produce a lot of instruments in...

@tej Also a press isn’t necessarily faster, but it’s definitely more expensive. A small arbor press doesn’t cost a ton (swidt) but it’s more than a hammer plus you need the caul and at least one fret ...

@mattbeels thanks, don’t have an arbour press so that’s not really an option, I’ve heard of people mounting a caul in a drill press though not sure that’s a good plan for my cheap drill. Like the idea...

I imagine that you can do it as quickly with a hammer as you can with a fret press @tej......by the time you set up the press you could have a few of the frets in with a hammer. 🙏😕&#x...

They’re two different techniques to achieve the same result. The method you use will be the one that suits you although depending on the neck construction style you may want to employ both. With a ham...

What are people’s experiences with using a fret hammer vs a fret press? I’ve seen Mark’s lesson on installing frets and it looks straightforward, appreciating his experience may have a lot to do with ...

I’m just a goofball We have a saying in flemish: 'Knowing yourself is the start of wisdom' 😋

If was fine actually @koendb, I’m just a goofball 🤪

I like the vintage just before dinner look. @mattbeels haha, yeah that sentence came out weird. 😎

@koendb It looks like it cane out well, great job! I like the vintage just before dinner look. 😉