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Using photoshop to make accurate fret guides

Posted by Tate Chmielewski on August 19, 2011 at 8:05pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

I just put this little tutorial together.. its about using photoshop to make fret marking print outs so you can get the fret slots just right

Not sure how many other people do it but it sure saves some time

 

You can check it out here sterainstruments.com/frets

 

This is the first tutorial I've done so hopefully it makes sense!

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  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates August 20, 2011 at 7:10pm

    Thank God you said Fretjob :-P

     

     

    MAAAAAAAAAATT, when we gonna meet!!!! Hey I might be traveling to Raleigh this week. Will email ya.

     

    Artist Formerly Known as Matt said:

    Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

    Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

    Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

     

    Nice, but too much work.

     

     

    AFKAM

  • Tate Chmielewski August 20, 2011 at 4:25pm

    hundred different ways to get to the same end :D


    Artist Formerly Known as Matt said:

    Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

    Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

    Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

     

    Nice, but too much work.

     

     

    AFKAM

  • Outhouse Instruments August 20, 2011 at 9:31am

    Hmmm, I printed out a measurement sheet ( in 1/64ths) on fretcalc and laid out one fretboard.

    Cut the nut slut , installed nut, laid a "stick" on the new fretboard and marked it to the same calculations.

    Mine is as accurate as any, and I can do a fretjob in less that 30 min.

     

    Nice, but too much work.

     

     

    AFKAM

  • Mike Bingham August 20, 2011 at 9:15am
    Pretty slick!
  • Tate Chmielewski August 20, 2011 at 3:20am

    Yeah illustrator can surely be used too, I haven't had any problems from photoshop and of course gotta check that its printing the right size. I measure from the nut line to the 12th fret.. so far on mine its always just right


    Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates said:

    Good idea. Interesting.

     

    Not to burst your bubble and all but I would say that it works much better with Illustrator tho. Being vector graphics vs bitmap, you get the advantage of scaling much cleaner than with photoshops bilinear or bicubic resampling.

     

    Good tutorial tho! Very well thought out and Very well presented.

     

    Also, no matter what app you use, DO INDEED print out the scale template and check the measurements! My printer is off 98.7%, so I need to increase the scale length by 101.3%.

     

    -WY

  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates August 19, 2011 at 10:01pm

    Good idea. Interesting.

     

    Not to burst your bubble and all but I would say that it works much better with Illustrator tho. Being vector graphics vs bitmap, you get the advantage of scaling much cleaner than with photoshops bilinear or bicubic resampling.

     

    Good tutorial tho! Very well thought out and Very well presented.

     

    Also, no matter what app you use, DO INDEED print out the scale template and check the measurements! My printer is off 98.7%, so I need to increase the scale length by 101.3%.

     

    -WY

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