New member here and wondering If anybody has ever removed a fret board off a cheap guitar and glued it down on a cigar box neck.I found a first act guitar for 20 bucks and had an epiphany lol.
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Take that $20 git and rip 3 strings off it and play it or add a pan lid resonator.
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I have done this with a large paint scraper lightly tapping it down lengthways with a soft mallet
You could always buy this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acoustic-Folk-Guitar-Rosewood-Fretboard-Fin...
They take offers, I'd go $10 and see what happens.
Thanks for the replies I'll probably just use the whole neck and make a 3 string.
It might be easier just to take the whole neck off and stick it on the cigar box.
Whether you can remove the fretboard or not, I don't know. But you might have problems with the scale length, unless you're going to replicate the measurement of the original guitar exactly.
I heard people had luck using an old iron....
I would have thought this was nigh on impossible without making a real mess of the board. Maybe use a spoke shave or machine and go at it from behind? Take of all the wood from the neck behind the board?
The other alternative, and far,far easier would be to just take off the whole neck and use that!
Just stick the whole thing on a box, much easier
I've removed a fretboard before. You need heat to soften the glue. I have a board set up with some spotlights attached to it. I hang this above the fretboard and plug it in. The heat from the lights will eventually soften the glue enough that you can start to insert a thin flexible knife, such as a palette knife underneath it. This might take several hours.
I can't say what shape the fretboard will be in when you're done though. The one I removed was on the thin side, and by the time I was done, it was curled up like a banana.
You also might be able to use an iron.