February 15, 2025
Description
Austin Shaner has put a lot of work into a Fusion 360 file to generate fretboards.
He provides metric and imperial versions of the file here https://grabcad.com/library/parametric-fretboard-v3-1
Out of interest, I wanted to lay the frets out from first principles without pre-calculating locations as Austin did, and so built this Fusion 360 sketch and quickly built and cut an example board in the attached file.
Please link to this object page on printables to cite it when it's useful to you.
Extrude an octave's worth of fret locations
Copy to the higher octave
Scale down by half
Build the body of the neck
Split the surface with the fret extrusions to mark the locations for the fret wires
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution
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