Fabricating a fret tang nipper

April 5 2012, 4:46 AM  by Shawn Hoover

Fabricate: construct or manufacture (something, esp. an industrial product), esp. from prepared components.

Prepared components: (1) $12 nibbling tool.

Construction and manufacturing: 10 minutes filing a groove with a triangular file.

I've been getting lots of cool ideas from the forum at Kenneth Michael Guitars. I love StewMac, but I wasn't in the mood to drop cash on their fret tang nipper. I figured standing at the disc sander would do the job, but I wanted to try this KMG mod. It actually worked!

The whole time I was imagining filing it wrong and having to throw out the whole thing. I was shocked how well it worked right off the bat.

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  • Apr 5 2012, 5:35 AM
    Nicholas Hendrix responded:
    That is awesome!!! Great job buddy. You should start a catalog . . Shawn-Mac. This could be your cornerstone item, your big seller. Sure beats destroying fret cutters by using them the wrong way.
  • Apr 5 2012, 5:40 AM
    Shawn Hoover responded:
    Shawn-Mac. I love it! I wonder how good a deal Radio Shack would give me on a thousand of those bad boys.
  • Jan 12 2013, 1:58 PM
    Tam responded:
    Do you have the RS Part Number?
  • Jan 13 2013, 10:05 AM
    Shawn Hoover responded:
    Not offhand, but if you search for radioshack.com for nibbling tool, it's the cheap one. I got mine from amazon.