Hello,
I need to buy a saw, a good one because I have a handicap. My fret tang is 055. What is the width of the blade required for these frets ?
No need to give me american link sites, the fees are too expensive for France.
Thank you !
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Hi Marmalade,
The fret saw specification you are looking for is called the "kerf", which is a measure of the width of the slot cut by the saw blade. In the U.S. (still mostly a non-metric country), typical fret tang size is about .023" (inches) and so, a saw like the Harbor Freight's "Japanese Flush Cut Saw" works real well and it has a .024" kerf.
If I convert .023" to millimeters, I get 0.5842 millimeters. And you say your fret tangs are "055"? What units of measure? I assume millimeters, but it looks like our numbers are way off. Maybe you can double check where the decimal point is supposed to be.
I'll check back to see if you have updated this thread.
-Rand.
Yes, that's rigth, it is 0.584. I found a japenese saw with a kerf finer than that number and it works fine. The ones sold for guitar makers are expensive and specially, for some, not very durable.
Well, it's good to hear you found a usable saw. Happy fretting...
-Rand.