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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on February 19, 2015 at 4:24pm

Can you post a picture of the aforementioned gap?

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 19, 2015 at 4:59pm

One option
Fret board not attached yet

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 19, 2015 at 4:53pm

Micro pics below with two options, not sure how to increase

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 19, 2015 at 4:57pm

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 19, 2015 at 5:28pm

Good idea
Not as creative as most of you but sure see the beauty in these boxes
Thanks
As a side note, I will need to remove about 2" off the end of the fretboard as I don't want to overlap on this one and will end up loosing two frets out of twenty. Do I understand the only loss will be lack of overall range of okay then? Will still have 24.75" scale from nut to bridge

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on February 19, 2015 at 7:47pm

If you haven't already cut your headstock to length,i'd just cut the curve of the box out and butt the neck against the small vertical face

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 20, 2015 at 1:45am

It's cut
On first build didn't plan far enough ahead to anticipate this

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Permalink Reply by Keith on February 19, 2015 at 5:46pm

Yep just losing playable notes. As long as the scale remains the same. I am building a license plate guitar and it will only have 18 frets on a 25.25 scale.

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Permalink Reply by JL on February 20, 2015 at 1:39am

another idea, display it...proudly.

cove cut or ogee  the end of the notch in the neck and the fingerboard to reveal and show off the fancy edge of the box.

As grandpappy always said: if you can't hide the elephant in the living room, make it wear a tutu!

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on February 20, 2015 at 1:49am

I run into that when I make CBGs using the Cohiba Vigaroso boxes. I cut the slot in the box, lay the neck in the slot and draw a pencil line along the curve, then cut the neck notch along that line so the notch in the neck matches the curvature of the box.

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Permalink Reply by Brent Kasl on February 20, 2015 at 1:56am

I already cut neck to length, otherwise that would work
Going to need to cut and fill in gap and affix fret board onto lid about 1" to hide
I am a visual person so any pictures to help me understand this appreciated

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Permalink Reply by JL on February 20, 2015 at 2:18am

Not to scale but...

just a quick sketch, but something like this, but a bit nicer/fancier, and make that box edge a feature.

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