If you aren't installing a truss rod, is there any reason to glue a fretboard onto the neck? I've seen quite a few people doing this and it surprised me. Just for aesthetic reasons?
I was planning on simply installing frets directly onto the main bo
Read more…Hi guys,
I'd like to preface this post by saying I'm an idiot sometimes.
I've just glued a finished fret board to a finished neck and need to remove a lot of hardened woodglue from these "finished" pieces. I'm guessing one or two of you may have had
Read more…I know its been mentioned before, there are a lot of tricks to gluing on the fretboard, just thought I'd start another one with pictures.
My technique is to use a couple of the ratcheting clamps to squeeze on the sides at each end to keep it in line
Read more…Newby needs some help. I've done a couple of guitars with red oak necks & fretboards. I've stained the necks then poly coats. Have only stained the fretboards.
Now, I've got a neck almost complete. It's maple with a walnut fretboard. The frets a
Read more…Newbie here. I am working on a CBU. I ordered a fretboard for a cigar box concert uke. Made by another enthusiast online... I asked for a 15" concert scale. Below you'll see a picture. I'm a little confused. There's a fret cut without a fret at one e
Read more…Having just completed my first build I was thinking over the things I'd do differently and the parts of the build that gave me the most trouble. Building the box from scratch was truly simple woodworking and was perhaps the easiest major part of the
Read more…I'm about to start on my 3rd CBG. The first was a fretted acoustic/electric and a great success, but someone bought it from me almost right away. My second was a tinkering project that was slide Coffee Can Resonator and sounds much like a banjo. I
Read more…Hey guys, I'm a brand newbie and I'm wondering just how critical it is to radius the fretboard and what really is the main purpose of that? I cannot believe the price that StewMac gets for their sanding blocks especially the 18" aluminum one.BTW what
Read more…I´m making 28.5 scale 4 or 5 string 16 fret baritone cbg.
Neck is mahogany and ash laminated together.
For the maple fingerboard I measured and marked frets layout.
Next I burned with wood burner frets layouts
Next I measured from nut to bridge 28.5
Read more…I have good cigar box. Bad is that it's in propeller. Can I fix it and how ?
I have guitar fingerboard what is 70cm long. I wanna make 28" scale guitar.
30" scale if I can't calculated 28" and I have short scale bass neck mesures.
My electric guit
Read more…I'm hunting for materials for my first build now, and was wondering what I should do for tuning and such. So far I have some fretwire, tuning pegs, and an EMG Select humbucker pickup. Originally, my idea was to make a stick dulcimer/dulcitar, but now
Read more…I've searched through the past discussions and haven't come across the answer - my apologies if I've missed it.
Anyhow, I'm looking to build a 6-string CBG and so would like to radius the fretboard. Not a compound radius, just a simple one like on mo
Hay I am planing on building the neck my self but I don't wana fret the fingerboard myself. I found this one pre-fretted fingerboard
http://www.allparts.com/Rosewood-Fretboard-p/lt-1075-0r0.htm
but I didn't find many because i am guessing the wood will
Does anyone have any experience using non-standard wood for fingerboards? For example, I know maple needs to be sealed... rosewood and ebony do not. My problem is when I start getting into woods that aren't "typically" used as fingerboards. Does an
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