Making a Really Simple Fret Slotting Jig for Guitars 

best diy fret slotting jig on RU-vid!

Great job! Very nice tool for the shop.

This is brilliant! And very well explained - thank you very much 😀

This is my Saturday project this week. Great video

Awesome video, thanks for this. Also, "Just a little bit of glue." *pours massive amount of glue* really made me chuckle. :)

lovely job dude

Excellent work.

Thank you so much for the inspiration! I built my version of it today and it works just perfect!!

Hey, man! I've done it and it works perfectly!!! Thanks a lot!!!

I don't know all this malarkey to saw a few frets ...but hold on that was so nicely done I've just made a micro shooting board to square all those smaller pieces of wood now you've inspired me to make a fret jig thanks John. Just subscribed.

Subscribed! Brilliant work!

Brilliant video, mate! You earned a new subscriber! Can't wait to make my own.

Hi John, Heath Robinson would be proud of the engineering that went into making this jig. Brilliant mate. Cheers, Huw

Nice build,I appreciate your video.

Got to hand it to you , working all that out and making the jig . keep going you'll get there👍👍

Another great video John. I'm planning to build one of these very soon. Good luck with your GGBO entry!

hey man that was awesome! thank you so much

Great idea! 🥰🌲🦊🌲

Nice . Good idea

very useful info, thanks for sharing

Great video, mate. Thinking about making this myself.

This is just what I need, thanks very much. 👍

Nice. I have been planning a similar build myself. A good commercial mitre box for fret slotting costs $200 here in Canada. I have taken to making my own tools, which is good practice for woodworking, and saves a lot of money. Keep up the good work!

Looks great job well done

Glad your building it and not me John. Great stuff 👍

Like your simple setup for the bearing guides. Have only seen it with lot of meta work..

Brilliant John, works really well. I thought I was the only person still using an Axminster White brad nailer so good to see yours too :)

Many thanks for this. It'll make things far simpler as I'm starting out. One thing I would do that you might be doing already is to clamp the whole jig down when cutting.

This is great! I am keen on building my first guitar and am also very keen on making my own tools to do it. Have very little wood working experience. I was looking for the guide on Crimson, but failed to find it. Can you link it?

Building this tomorrow saves me $250 buying stew macs

Very simple there 👍

Nice job, very similar to the one Susie Gardener did a while back. Yours is a bit simpler to make though. Thanks

i made a jig very similar with skateboard bearings that could be height adjusted for the depth of the slots..the bearings however wore away the brass on the spine of the fret slotting saw..and as i remember it then was not so accurate, and started to bind a little during the cutting process. It had a base that the fretboard attached to..which had the correct slots cut into it, but the slots were on the bottom of the base, and there was a razor blade on the jig that fit snug into the slots to keep the fret distances accurate..the fretboard was hotmelt glued to the base. The base was a little bit narrower than the jig, and i used some small wedges to keep the fretboard and base aligned and snug to the side of the jig as i cut the slots. This avoided any side to side movement that would have caused the blade to bind during the cutting.

That’s quite interesting to watch. Do like your idea of a small amount of glue though😂😂

Nice work, John. You could refine the guides slightly and sell it as a kit… I'd certainly be in the queue!

Thank you John! vey well explained but please could you tell me the brand and model of your band saw? I have a very small space and I'm looking for something useful but small and yours seem like that!

I'd 3d print instead of using MDF, just because I have one. Great idea and stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Would you be able to list the hardware you used for this build, and possibly source? I just want to make sure I get the correct items!

I love the jig and I may have missed it but, you show a lot of care in making it square etc, which I appreciate but did you mention that the fret board must be precisely positioned on the fret jig plate (for lack of a better term) or the cuts will not be accurate?

Looks Good! 🤔I would of maybe screwed a larger base board to what you just made, so it could be clamped down to the table...MDF is sooo slippery!

How did you make sure your saw would not cut too deep? I seem to have missed the point where you added a depth stop. Thanks!

clever, would a normal mitre block do the same job? if you clamped down the template. well worth the effort if you plan on making more guitars though.

What do you use to ensure the depth of the fret slot cut? Maybe I missed that piece

John; Do you have any sizes for you Jig: I appreciate that I could work it all out (I suppose based on bearing sizes etc) but it would be handy to have a baseline sized diagram. I did make your fret bending jig which was quite straight forward but this does seem to need a bit more accuracy.

this is definitely worth your time, I mean the thing costs 150 bucks, and it's pretty fun to build as well

Friend, do you sell the plans for this tool?

Shouldn't the cut follow the radius of the board? Or it doesn't make any difference?

Where abouts do you put the pin ( measurement)?

How did you notch the crimson fret position guide. They don’t come with notches! Hacksaw?

What dimensions does the base have?

i use a set square, pencil, knife and a junior hacksaw oh and a ruler

Sooooooo, we just GUESS at the dimensions and measurements. Got it.

Simple?

How I know this video wasn't made for Americans? Because we have a very different idea of "really simple"

Simple jig? My head hurts.

get out of here m8... thats profesional

now show us how to make templates without cnc