Guitar restoration - Part 9 - Refretting the neck

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With the neck being prepared (headstock finished with boiled linseed oil, fretboard inlay in place) the time came for (re)fretting the instrument. I had a set of fretwire laying around, but they were fairly thin ones, and very loose in the fretboard, so I selected some wider ones (both the upper and the lower part), namely Dunlop Accu-Fret Jumbo 6110, they fit almost perfectly, not too tight, but not loose either.

I first verified that all fret channels are deep enough (given that I have reshaped the fretboard to have a 10" radius the problematic parts were near the edges), and cut them a bit deeper where the fretwire didn't fit.
Test fitting the fretwire

Then came the gluing part. Given that I wanted to have minimal mess on the fretboard (given that it is a light maple, and given my experiences while doing the inlay with superglue), out of the options suggested by a StewMac video for superglue I chose the one with adding the glue from the sides, but as that didn't work out perfectly, I combined it with a custom method, namely put superglue to the bottom of the fret, clamped it onto the fretboard with two clamps on the sides, and added some more glue from the sides. This worked out reasonably well.
Frets trimmed and clamping the last ones
End result

Then came the trimming the frets to the proper length... this was hard and time-consuming. After trimming them to an approximate size, with a small rasp I have leveled the sides until I didn't feel them while moving my fingers up and down on the sides of the neck.

Again, the end-result is surprisingly good, it looks nice and feels nice, except for the few spots where I went too deep with the rasp on the sides, meaning that a bit of the original finish came off.

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