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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on June 12, 2010 at 10:57am

The text said 90 degrees but I can not see a upright 90, might be in their. Without it it is not much good for frets.
You could build your own, but at that price it is not a big cash outlay.
If you want to build one PM me and I will send you photos of mu home build.
Cheers Ron.

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Permalink Reply by Grace Bowyer on June 12, 2010 at 11:08am

Mungo Park said:

The text said 90 degrees but I can not see a upright 90, might be in their. Without it it is not much good for frets.
You could build your own, but at that price it is not a big cash outlay.
If you want to build one PM me and I will send you photos of mu home build.
Cheers Ron.

Thanks for the response, Ron. It says in the description:

Miter box has slots for 90º, 45º left and right cuts, 45º bevel.

The upright 90 is right in the middle, inbetween the 45 left and right.

Cheers,
Grace

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Permalink Reply by Brendan deVallance on June 12, 2010 at 6:16pm

That is the cheapest one made on earth. And that translates also to the worse one on earth. My opinion is to buy quality tools unless you like buying them over and over again. —B

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on June 13, 2010 at 12:51am

There's nothing "wrong" with it.
It just may not be what you need. The miter box will be made to match the saw ..... It the saw is to big for your frets, the miter box will allow some slop when you used the correct saw.
I used the miter box and saw set I had to make a miter box ti use for fretting.
Trust me on this, I can slot and fret a neck in less than 30 minutes using the flush cut form Harbor Freight and my own box or the hobby shop box. ( which is very tight btw. it should translate to being very accurate. I just wish the hobby shop box was an inch taller. I'm gonna modify it myself.
I feel ya on the 10 bucks is 10 bucks. But the money is worth it for the results.


Matt

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on June 13, 2010 at 2:53am

Grace,

Buy a Japanese Flush Cut saw from Harbor. It has a .023 kerf which is .001 less (more?) than Stew Mac Fret tangs. I guarantee you this is what you want. If you don't. I will buy it from you. That's how much I think you will like it.

Also check out my page blog for info on this saw. You can make your own miter. I did. Its simple.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kennedy on June 13, 2010 at 3:41am

I actually have the exact miterbox and saw set from HF. I bought it with the same intentions as you are considering. MY advice is dont do it. I dont know what the kerf is but it is too wide for fret slots. You will indeed be gluing the frets in. The box slot are sloppy and with use the saw chews the box slots up even more. As a general purpose set up that you dont require accuracy on go for it. What I have dont recently is picked up a HF Jap pull saw as everyone reccomends. I just use it with a standard square as a straight edge and hold it tight against it. Ill put a depth guage on it soon

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Permalink Reply by Grace Bowyer on June 13, 2010 at 5:51am

Thanks very much for the responses, everyone! I trust your experience (that's why I asked you guys in the first place), so I'll go with the flush-cut saw. Thanks a ton!

Cheers,
Grace

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on June 13, 2010 at 8:17am

Here is a link to my blog about the flush cut saw.

-WY

Wes Yates said:

Grace,

Buy a Japanese Flush Cut saw from Harbor. It has a .023 kerf which is .001 less (more?) than Stew Mac Fret tangs. I guarantee you this is what you want. If you don't. I will buy it from you. That's how much I think you will like it.

Also check out my page blog for info on this saw. You can make your own miter. I did. Its simple.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Craig Cox on June 13, 2010 at 12:47pm

Wes, I'm going to buy this saw tomorrow thanks to this post and my own on fretting about fretting. Could you describe how you modified the saw with a depth stop?

Wes Yates said:

Grace,

Buy a Japanese Flush Cut saw from Harbor. It has a .023 kerf which is .001 less (more?) than Stew Mac Fret tangs. I guarantee you this is what you want. If you don't. I will buy it from you. That's how much I think you will like it.

Also check out my page blog for info on this saw. You can make your own miter. I did. Its simple.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by stan bryars on June 18, 2010 at 2:41pm

This is what I bought
I use a speed square to line things up, it works better and faster tna using a miter box that may allow the blade to wobble or get slightly of at an angle

That is also the handiest saw I have for general cutting


Wes Yates said:

Grace,

Buy a Japanese Flush Cut saw from Harbor. It has a .023 kerf which is .001 less (more?) than Stew Mac Fret tangs. I guarantee you this is what you want. If you don't. I will buy it from you. That's how much I think you will like it.

Also check out my page blog for info on this saw. You can make your own miter. I did. Its simple.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by BenBob on June 18, 2010 at 4:31pm

Have you rigged a depth guard for when you use the speed square?

stan bryars said:

This is what I bought
I use a speed square to line things up, it works better and faster tna using a miter box that may allow the blade to wobble or get slightly of at an angle That is also the handiest saw I have for general cutting


Wes Yates said:

Grace,

Buy a Japanese Flush Cut saw from Harbor. It has a .023 kerf which is .001 less (more?) than Stew Mac Fret tangs. I guarantee you this is what you want. If you don't. I will buy it from you. That's how much I think you will like it. Also check out my page blog for info on this saw. You can make your own miter. I did. Its simple.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by William McCauley on June 20, 2010 at 5:03am

Buy a reasonably priced backsaw from a big box home store. Make a three sided box and cut 90 degree across the box sides. This will set your kerf to match the saw. Use a steel rule, or machinist square as a guide for the saw when you make the cut. Size the box for the depth and the width of the neck.

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