Just a thought on attaching a fretboard...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 6, 2012 at 5:01am

Yep. Dig back through posts from 2009. Lots of gluing and screwing goin' on then. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on July 6, 2012 at 5:15am

I used brass screws at the fret markers on the Amish Harp build.. The bocote fretboard has the dulcimer fretting, i also made another fretboard with regular guitar fretting so i can switch that one on to. Scale length-25".

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Permalink Reply by Medicine Man CBG's-Mikel Doktor on July 7, 2012 at 1:32am

Looks Great! Sold!

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Permalink Reply by Habanera Hal on July 23, 2012 at 4:13pm

Randy, did you use wood screws right into the neck?  IMHO, that could weaken the hold as you change out fretboards over time.  A more permanent solution could be to use threaded inserts into the neck allowing you to use flat-head machine screws (maybe 8-32's?) to hold the fingerboards down.

You could then have chromatic, diatonic, "blucimer", pentonic, or whatever you wanted as spare fretboards.

(BTW - love the bocote grain!)

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on July 6, 2012 at 5:16am

Needn't be 'instead'... Necessarily, dots cover em over pretty good too ;)

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on July 10, 2012 at 11:17am

Great idea and I love Randy's method of having interchangeable fretboards.

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