Today Monty came up to cut fret grooves in our "Dynaflow" banjo necks. Clint is taking a well-earned vacation with Sarah over in Asheville, so there were only two banjo boys present and accounted for.
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Fret cross-section |
During the last couple of weeks, I had built a miter box to guide the blade of my fret-cutting saw. The saw has a couple of features that make it special. The "kerf" or width of the blade is such that the tang of a banjo fret will fit tightly into the slot that it cuts. Also, the saw has a device that limits how deeply into the wood it can cut. You don't want to cut much past the depth of the fret tang. Monty and I measured, marked, and cut each fret groove very carefully, since the position of these frets will determine the accurate intonation of the finished instruments. Here are the results:
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