Some poplar I picked up to laminate to a maple neck. Marked it out and scored the lines for easy cutting. This is nerve-wracking doing it with a ruler!
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Good tip, thanks. About half way through marking this one out I thought to myself "why am I marking my first one on a fretboard? I should be doing this on a template so I never have to do it again" haha. Maybe next time. This is at a 24.84" scale, Godin/Simon and Patrick/Richmond/etc. guitars' common scale. I held it up beside my Simon and Patrick acoustic and it lines up perfect so I think I did it right, haha.
Looks good. If you are planning on making more fboards, a cool tool is a simple fret scale, I made a whole bunch of them from aluminum yardsticks (with millimeters!). I also made a little plexi-glass "sandwich" layout tool that rides along the scale or along the fret board, works great for accurately marking the fret positions. http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/making-scales1 http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/makingscales3
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Looks real sharp and right on for spacing. Good work!
"About half way through... I thought to myself..." Ha. This sounds all-too familiar to me!
Good tip, thanks. About half way through marking this one out I thought to myself "why am I marking my first one on a fretboard? I should be doing this on a template so I never have to do it again" haha. Maybe next time. This is at a 24.84" scale, Godin/Simon and Patrick/Richmond/etc. guitars' common scale. I held it up beside my Simon and Patrick acoustic and it lines up perfect so I think I did it right, haha.
Looks good. If you are planning on making more fboards, a cool tool is a simple fret scale, I made a whole bunch of them from aluminum yardsticks (with millimeters!). I also made a little plexi-glass "sandwich" layout tool that rides along the scale or along the fret board, works great for accurately marking the fret positions.
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/making-scales1
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/makingscales3