Right, excuse me for being ignorant but I’ve never looked into the whole fanned fret thing. What is the reason for it? Why? Thanks in advance for my education.

Having now watched the video I have to agree with @darrenking, in practice this would be an awful system to use, because errors will happen at every step. As an illustration of how the numbers relate ...

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I came upon this youtube video, I thought it would be of interest. I never saw this before. @richie718 Yeah that is cool for sure and I haven’t seen it before either. It kind of takes me back to my ...

Here's the link to the report.

I'm not quite sure that they are any more ecologically sound...... Richlite, at least, is FSC certified. I'm not aware of there being much FSC ebony available anywhere and reading the report of Taylo...

Great video @steveadams Glad to see you're having fun even at a stressful bit of making an acoustic.

Now you just need a license to paint it in Vantablack

I know you’re going to paint it @boo but I was thinking that the mismatch of the grain on the headstock would seep through... but I guess that you know what you’re doing, right? 🤷🏼...

no allowance is made for this with standard parallel fret positions. @darrenking There's no allowance to make in that case. draw out a rectangular representing a neck (from bridge to nut) with parall...

that you have to include the string angle into your calculations I think that the differences caused by small variations in nut/fretboard/bridge widths aren’t going to matter. I mean, no allowance is...

I'm going to have to draw it out, but it seems to me that an issue with fan frets may be that you have to include the string angle into your calculations, at least for the outside ones (the ones in be...

as it angles the fretboard rather than the saw Yup, definitely the most sensible and easiest way to go. I’ve had an idea on how to adjust for the different ‘square fret’ but I need to draw it before ...

@darrenking You're correct that there is no standard for which is the right angle fret. Strandberg seem to make it the zero fret, but they don't have a big difference in scales (just 1/2 inch between ...

I’ve just watched this video and I’m sorry, but there is no way that this method would be anywhere near as accurate as simply measuring each fret position from the nut. Every time he measures the next...

A universal, adjustable fan fret jig is almost impossible. There are just sooooo many variables not least of which is deciding the fret that is square to the centreline of the fret board. This affects...

@darrenking You're correct, Martin use Richlite

I’ve never come across Rocklite. I’ll check it out tomorrow but I thought it was Richlite that Martin use for fretboards and bridges. Cheers

@darrenking Richlite and Rocklite are different companies with different products. Rocklite is made from wood

I'd assume it was real wood It’s made up from layers of paper bonded with a phenolic resin.