First you find that old broken file that you’ve had lying around and have been meaning to throw for the past 10 years, then you find a piece of wood (of the scrap variety) glue the two together and voila, you have just saved yourself 90 bucks.

Again, not pretty, but again, it does the job.
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Just run it down the side of the fretboard to smooth off all the nasty bits of overhanging fret wire.
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Then hold it at an angle and bevel off the edges.
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And yer done.
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That’s the fretting done, next will be to dress the frets. That’s when I will find out how good a job I did.

Cheers
rob