Step 9: Me and my girl, Fret cutting

OK, I said before, I'm not planning on fretting this guitar, but I'm not a good enough player to get away with not having at least a few visual markers. What I'm planning on doing then is cutting shallow trenches on each of the lines and then finding something to fill them with, even if it is just ink.

As jobs go then, this was repetitive, but not the hardest to date. I just put the neck face up in the workmate and one fret at a time used a saw to make a cut into it. Maybe I should go the extra step and put some wire in, but this time I'd rather just end up with something playable. If I do another perhaps we'll try and improve things generally including the frets and all that.

I'll have to have a think about how we colour the grooves, I guess, but other than that, we have completed all of the woodworking bits, and not being left with a pile of rubble and blood covered dust. I have to say it went better than expected.

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As an update, I decided to burn the wood in the fret holes I'd cut. To do this I was going to use a soldering iron, but instead came across a very similar tool but one that is actually designed for 'pyrography', which was a new one on me, but is apparently all about putting designs on wood and leather. It cost a couple of quid and meant I didn't knacker up my soldering iron, so a bit of a result really. It set the smoke alarm off, but there we go, so does every meal I cook, so nobody noticed.