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When taking the ends of fret tangs off how do you guarantee not to file into fret causing perceived lift when making them flush?

Hi There, I've seen a number of jigs, Some seem like they might work with specific size frets but we all know that even same sized frets have some variances depending batch and where on the line it came off the spool. No matter how i do it I seem to scrape the bottom of the fret trying to make it perfectly flush. I've considered using small rotary round burr or cylinder and only touching the tang so if it does go to deep its…

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Here we go! The UnTangler was created exactly to deal with this issue. If you look in the loothprints library there is a LITE version you can download and print yourself, or have somebody print for yo…
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K&K Pickup Aligner/Locator Jig – Parametric 3D Print

K&K Pickup Aligner/Locator Jig – Parametric 3D Print Installing a K&K Pure Mini pickup is one of those jobs that looks simple until you're blind, upside-down inside a guitar, and wishing you had a thi…

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