I have read stuff about people flapping over cutting fret slots. All that measure, measure again stuff, or walk off and come back later to check etc. I'm probably a law-breaking heathen, but this is what I did - I have a high quality large format plotter at work. I found a good quality postscript pdf of a Fender neck, drawn accurately to scale. I reduced the line widths to very narrow, printed it off and stuck it onto my fretboard blank with double sided tape, and just cut directly over the lines. Seemed to work OK so I'm doing the same again for guitar no 2.
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the bigger issue will be your ability to saw exactly on the line.
the issue is worse when people use domestic printers to do the same. Really worth double checking everything then. But even if the paper changes dimensions slightly, it generally changes it in a way which leaves it proportionately correct.
but none of those drawings or fret calc tools were available when I started building, so I learned the hard way.
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That way, you get to test your measurements before ever going near an expensive bit of fretboard wood.
I do have them for all the common scale lengths. But I am glad I never learned with them as I am happy doing any scale length you can imagine without them.
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They are perfectly accurate.
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I use an A0 plotter for work and have problems in winter. I find that along the length of the paper roll it's quite stable but across the width it's very variable. You need to print a dimension line on the printout so you can check before applying it to the neck.