#2 Fretboard
- May 24th, 2010
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Woof, I did a TON of work this weekend. I am proud to say that I competed the neck. I took a bunch of pictures, so I am going to split this into two posts: one for fretboard, one for neck carving.
I am nervous about my fret slots, they seem a little screwed. I guess I will find out soon enough. Everything else I am fairly happy with.
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- Slotted Fingerboard
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- Inlays cut from leftover maple
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- Mock-up
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- Fitted
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- Glued
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- Onward!
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- 12th fret double inlay
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- far shot
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- latter frets
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- Sanded down, lookin good
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- 12th fret result
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- Far shot
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- Clean-up time!
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- Final size scribed
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- thicknessing (7/32″)
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- FB w/ just maple binding
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- FB end rounded
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- test rout for purfling
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- FB purfling routed
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- Go big or go home, quick mock up
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- purfling being taped on
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- glued down, recutting fret slots
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- time to radius
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- bindings going on
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- FB end bound (binded, whatever)
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- Time to sand and polish
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- It’s a lot of work
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- My arm still hurts…
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- Final polish
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- On neck for mock-up
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- Frets cut and 1 side of tang removed
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- Starting to fret
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- All fretted, now to shape
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- All shaped
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- Frets masked for polishing
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- Frets re-crowned, leaves a rough finish
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- Looks great after polish
yikes, that was a lot of pictures….
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