rubber314chicken Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 which do you like better, wfret, of measuring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I had to Google for what wfret was. I haven't used either, but surely wfret is going to be more accurate than the rules most people have access too, which are only divided up to the millimetre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick500 Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I use the StewMac fret slotting miter box and templates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Neither, I use ACAD. I'll get the numbers from a fret calculator like Stewmac, I also have a guitar repair book (Complete Guitar Repair - Hideo Kamimoto) that has pages full of fret distances for almost every scale length (23.5" , 23.75", 24" etc. all the way to 34.5"). I'll draw my fretboard in ACAD to 1:1 scale and print it out , like wfret method. Measure each fret individually with a ruler? you gotta be NUTZ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Neither, really; not sure how accurate my printer is, for one thing, and paper's very hygroscopic (can change sizes if humidity shifts). Mostly, though...measure out fret distances? I'll stick with having a dude laser cut me extra templates in stainless steel for use with my stemac mitre box, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I have measured out most of mine by hand from the fret tables in the back of MYOEG. Although i think i used wFret for a baritone i made once - but i still meausred them by hand, i aint gonna trust a paper template!! Last year i brought the stew-mac mitre-box and a couple of templates- i'm not going back to measuring by hand!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElRay Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Another neither. I use FretFind2D. It handles arbitrary arbitrary number of strings, scale lengths, multi-scale guitars, non-even-tempered scales, microtonal scales, etc. It can dump-out PDF files, SWF files, and a few other formats. Sorry, don't have the URL here, but you can Google it. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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