Thanks. I just got another -slightly beefier- pair of these clamps from Harbor Freight & may swap them out. The (solid) oak plank is 1/2" thick by about an 1-5/8 wide -just slightly wider than my cbg fboard blanks, so not a lot of slop. For the aluminum rails, I just used the leftovers from some fret scale templates I made and attached them with counter-sunk wood screws. Then I flipped the whole thing over, squared it up on a crosscut sled and ran it through the table saw a few times so it would accept the kerf of the fret saw + depth stop. The whole shebang is incredibly easy & cheap to make. As a matter of fact, even that oak board started out as a piece of damaged scrap flooring rescued from the dumpster behind Lumber Liquidators.
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Thanks. I just got another -slightly beefier- pair of these clamps from Harbor Freight & may swap them out. The (solid) oak plank is 1/2" thick by about an 1-5/8 wide -just slightly wider than my cbg fboard blanks, so not a lot of slop. For the aluminum rails, I just used the leftovers from some fret scale templates I made and attached them with counter-sunk wood screws. Then I flipped the whole thing over, squared it up on a crosscut sled and ran it through the table saw a few times so it would accept the kerf of the fret saw + depth stop. The whole shebang is incredibly easy & cheap to make. As a matter of fact, even that oak board started out as a piece of damaged scrap flooring rescued from the dumpster behind Lumber Liquidators.
NIce work. I been wanting to make one of those. Have a couple of those clamps from my old frame saw table.
THAT is a good idea. Would have save me some crooked frets.
Built a NEW fret slotting miter box. Works great.