Hi all,
I'm building my first CBG. It will have a maple through neck and rosewood fingerboard.
I'm wondering if it makes more sense to glue on the fingerboard before finishing the neck, or after? It seems like it might be easier to tape off the top surface of the neck while finishing and then glue, rather than gluing before and taping off the fingerboard to finish, but I'm not sure. I haven't decided on the finish (I'm thinking off either spray-on lacquer or maybe polyurethane) and I still have a ways to go, but I'm trying to get a handle on the assembly process.
Thanks!
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Tung oil is pricey but it goes a very long way. It's an earthy, natural finish, almost like those wooden railings at amusement parks that have had about 7 billion oily hands run over them every year. I liken it to more of a players finish versus a thick, glass-like, lacquer hard shell. It will oxidize with the wood and gets richer as time goes on. It's not the toughest, but it is beautiful.
As with anything, practice on a scrap piece of wood. Lots and lots and lots of really thin coats, rubbed in with a rag, is how I put it on. It's a rather slow zen like process.
On another note: My way is based on a bought fretted board...haven't attempted fretting yet.
oh give it a shot...it looks absolutely daunting, but it's really not too terribly bad. If you're like me, you'll probably screw up here and there and leave a few tool marks behind, but it gives the guitar a bit a soul.
I use a fretboard slot duplicating jig
My version
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/mmy-fret-slotting-jig
Copied from heaps of other similar ones here and on YouTube.
I have been putting the frets right on the neck - no separate piece - what are the pro's and con's of that???
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