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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on April 2, 2011 at 6:40am

I have a beautiful finished neck with the wrong fret measurements.  Maple, bloodwood fingerboard, blue MOP position markers -- and absolutely no way to mount it on a box because the bridge would have to be really close to the fingerboard, and there is no extra heel material to use to fudge it and the neck is rounded, so no way to glue new wood on the back, and well, it is basically really pretty, expensive firewood.

 

Wish I had a way out like you do!

Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on April 2, 2011 at 10:29am

The single most reason I never agree with copying a fret layout from another instrument. It does strike me as odd it would be THAT far off though. Glad it worked out for you.

Don

Permalink Reply by herb Berwald WWW.CigarGuitar.com on April 2, 2011 at 11:31am

yep, have a neck on my wall that I can't use also...really nice walnut.

Permalink Reply by Mickey Sadler on April 2, 2011 at 11:34am

Diane, since I have not seen a picture of your neck you can take this with a grain of salt. I think I would find a way to glue material to the heel, maybe in a contrasting wood to make it look intentional, and see if I could save it. There's gotta be a way! I would hate to see a good neck go to waste.

 

Mickey

Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on April 3, 2011 at 12:25am

Glad to see I'm in good company! I thought it was really odd that it was that far off too, but it is. The other instruments I have copied scales from were at least good quality instruments in the first place but those printable fret position programs are looking better all the time. Not that there aren't mistakes to be made there as well. This build has confirmed that smaller is harder. Working with that narrow/low fret wire was a pain.

Thanks for the responses.