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.
Just run it down the side of the fretboard to smooth off all the nasty bits of overhanging fret wire.
Then hold it at an angle and bevel off the edges.
And yer done.
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