Patent ID: 7060881

Claim:
A method for manufacturing frets to be driven into fingerboards of stringed instruments, each of said frets including a fret main body for dividing a surface of the fingerboard and a leg portion standing unitedly on an underside of said fret main body, wherein said fret main body has two ends, each formed in a shape constituted of an inclination at a specific angle, to be provided at both sides of the fingerboard along a cross-sectional shape of the fingerboard, said method comprising: fixing a continuous fret line having a fret main body at an upper portion thereof and a leg portion at a lower portion thereof; and cutting and separating a fret with a specific length from said continuous fret line by moving an end mill having an inclination scraping portion and a plane scraping portion from one side thereof in a direction perpendicular to said continuous fret line, while forming said inclination at an end of said fret main body of said cut-off fret and an end of said continuous fret line and forming cut-out portions spaced at a specific dimension in said end of said leg portion of said cut-off fret and said end of said leg portion of said continuous fret line, respectively.