I marked the position for each fret and drilled a little groove for the coat hanger. Then I drilled the end holes for the ends of the coat hanger frets. Each fret was hand bent to match the holes and the grooves were carved a little to level them as I went down the neck. I did have to do a bit of minor filing on 4 frets after finishing. I used only one coat hanger and had two frets left over that were little off in the bending (pictured - one had a dip in the middle and the other was too wide).
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Scott, I had heard you were making guitars! They look very cool. I have been building too. You can see some of them at https://www.facebook.com/Lawntroutguitars
BTW last night I saw you on television in the movie Trinidad ! I had to rewind to believe it!