Guitar Fretboard Radius Jig

How to make your own guitar fretboard radius jig. Made with offcuts and a $12 skateboard from Kmart.

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Arran Adair
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Made to be informative and entertaining.
Filmed on an iPhone.

[goopee]

I like the 1:45 note.
Many ignore that fact and make jigs with the sled of true radius and rout the fretboard obviously with smaller radius as they lower the bit below the sled. Lovely work

[luthiferbuilds]

Now thats a really cool band saw attachment! and even cooler jig

[fermisparadox]

Great looking jig. Much more compact than the other jigs I've seen on here.

[DevilAndSons]

I've just made my own radius jig and it's very much inspired by yours. I had a system using small casters on the router base but swapped it out for your system with the bearings - much more elegant. Thanks for sharing.

[karlalton]

This is the best idea I've ever seen, much better than the swinging pendulum ones thanks bud 😁😁🤘🤘🤘

[richardsandson]

This is the best example of this jig that I've seen so far. Thank you for providing me with this weekends project.

[HearGear]

Nice jig.. do you put some tension on the trussrod before radiusing the fretboard ?

[russellfoster]

Nice i have the same type of jig to avoid tear out on fretted slots use shallow passes straight up from the heel at the high E side aross at the nut end straight back down at the low E side to the heel then across the whole board it leaves tooling marks but they are easy cleaned up the biggest thing to avoid is being tempted to have the bit flush with the center of the board when making the 1st passes tear out will happen

[saltwaterguitars]

Nice jig ... another one that I need to build!! Btw, I'm just down the road from you in Bacchus Marsh

[mgcnashville]

So what do you do to compensate for the difference between the radius at the tip of the router bit vs the radius at base? If the base is 12”, and you lower your bit 1” below the base to reach the fretboard, you’re really routing an 11” radius. I cut my bases one inch larger radius for this reason.

Tip: I route my fretboards before I cut them to shape to avoid tearout in important places.

I like the ball bearing method. I may try that!

[rexgould]

Thanks for making the video, that’s a great jig, going to save me a lot of time and effort sanding with a radius block

[VTRAddict]

I'm in the process of building my first guitar and coming up to doing the neck and fretboard. I have already made myself a radius sanding block and was planning on using that in conjunction with a hand plane to do the fretboard radius, but I think I have a new project in the works now. I have a ton of plywood pieces and all the tools I need to make this, not to mention about 40 sets bearings I bought when fidget spinners were a thing...

[kearnsguitars]

I tried to make one once it was a disaster...lol u like this design a lot! Much simpler than the one I was trying to make. Well done

[MrNepune]

Thank you for showing it so clearly. Will make one soon :)

[jurgenzoller]

I think you have inspired me rebuild a new radiusing jig, my old one is looking very amateur these days. Great video mate!

[byronmcduffy]

Except for th Philips screws - brilliant work.

[Scomelbasses]

The only issue I've had with the various router jigs I've made for the fingerboard radius is the potential for tear out, especially routing the radius after slotting for frets. I prefer to radius after gluing on a flat fingerboard but I've had to remove a fingerboard or two after getting significant tear out on the edges.

[scaira]

Very nice jig, I’m going to build one Thank you👍👍🎸🎹🎼👨🏻‍🦯👨🏻‍🦯

[SweetTGuitars]

Nice man. I have plans for something kind of similar to this. I like your design for sure. ✌️

This is a nice jig. But I saw the background light while you were checking with radius meter