After the groove is cut, either with a drill bit and rotary tool or small screwdriver, dig away at the wood beneath the first 5 frets. This will be used to carry the wires from the frets to the body of the guitar, so it's best to leave the side your fingers will be sliding along alone. Make sure you cut this on the side of the guitar that will face the ceiling the model in the picture was accidentally cut on the wrong side. Along the side of the neck, between the neck and the fretboard, use a circular cutting disk with the rotary tool to cut out a small groove, approximately 1/8" deep. If you're here, you've either got a new neck, or you didn't bother trying to wire the filled neck from the inside. If your guitar has a first fret already installed, you'll want to cut a channel from the button hole to the first fret, allowing you to solder in a wire to that fret as well. Now, cut some long lengths of wire and where you cut the notches, solder one end of each wire to each fret. Cut lengths of fret wire as wide as the neck of the guitar, center them in the block, then using a piece of wood to protect the fret, hammer in the fret wire (the wood prevents the fret wire from being damaged by the hammer).
To wire them from the side, jump to the next step otherwise, gently remove the wooden plug block and cut some notches in the side of it where you cut it for the frets. You can either just cut and hammer in the fret wire now and put the wires along the side of the guitar, or you can try to wire them from the middle of the fretboard. If you don't have another neck, the measurements from the nut on mine were 1st fret (already installed): 3.6 mm 2nd fret: 7 mm 3rd fret: 10.3 mm 4th fret: 13.2 mm 5th fret: 16.15 mm 6th fret: 18.95 mm Insert the plug into the neck so that it fits flush with the face of the fretboard and then using the blade of a coping saw, cut thin grooves along the places where you marked. Now, using another guitar neck, mark where the frets should go on your neck. I'll show both ways of doing it, though, so if it's easier to get your hands on a suitable guitar neck, I'd recommend that approach.
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I did a button replacement, which is most likely somewhat cheaper but much more time intensive, whereas using a full real guitar neck would be more expensive, but give more professional results.
There are two ways of doing this: replacing the buttons with wood and frets, or replacing the neck with a real guitar neck. Basically, the project involves modifying the neck of the guitar to add strings and frets to it. Unfortunately, this process requires using full-size "built into the body of a real guitar" guitar hero controller, although with more effort, you might be able to use a regular Guitar Hero/Rock Band controller. Today we'll be showing you how modify an Ashley Rock Axe or similar "guitar hero controller built out of a real guitar" into a controller that allows you to play Guitar Hero/Rock Band using real strings and frets, allowing you to practice real guitar fingerings and chords.