Part 11 - Building My First Guitar - Installing The Frets

In this video I install the frets into the guitar neck. However, I made a lot of mistakes.

0:00 - Cutting fret slots to their "final" depth
1:25 - Bending the fret wire
3:01 - Filing a bevel in fret opening
3:22 - Fret press fail
3:57 - Using a shop clamp!
6:27 - Realising I didn't cut the fret slots deep enough
8:20 - Switching to a dead blow hammer
10:06 - Repairing dents to the back of the neck
11:50 - Re-fretting the bad frets
14:45 - Trying the fret press again
16:33 - Fret glue experiments
22:30 - Gluing the real frets
24:01 - What am I doing wrong?
25:27 - Massive clean-up job
28:57 - Filing and Bevelling the fret ends
32:07 - Done!

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