I'm building my first license plate guitar. I'm making the neck now. I have a 1x2 mahogany piece as the main neck with an ebony fret board. I want the fret board to extend a few inches over the license plate.
It feels like a stupid question, but do I cut out a section of the license plate or lay the fret-board on lop of the license plate?
thanks,
Daniel
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You can do either, but it will reduce the plates resonance a little, can you lift the neck just a little to let the board float over the plate without touching? Or even take a little off the underside of the fretboard where it goes over the plate. If i was to do either of your 2 choices, i'd probably go for cutting the plate, and coming up with some way of making it look ok, maybe something like a contrasting colour mesh glued under the plate, and use it as a soundhole by making it a little wider and longer than the necks footprint, that's just my take, someone might have a better idea
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Ok, great idea. I pretty much did that last night. What I did was NOT glue the portion of the fret-board that will go over the license plate. Actually, I slid the license plate under while the rest was glued.
Ok, great. That is very close to what was in my mind.
Let the fretboard overhang onto the plate by a fret or two. Setting the neck in the box so that the fretboard has a little bit of height above the top of the box is always a good idea as then it will give you a decent bridge height and a good string break angle over it.
Don't cut the plate, you are only making unncecessary work for yourself.
Great, thanks! Just built of the neck exactly this way.
Regarding cutting the plate, I plan on putting in a mini-humbucker at the neck and another at the bridge. I assume I need to cut the plate for this?
Hmm, tempting. What size would you recommend for a license plate guitar?
Ok, your promotion worked. I bought the CBG rocker.
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I also assume you provide some wiring diagrams for a volume and tone knob?
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Looks beautiful.
String buzz is not caused by how long the neck is, check your action height and neck relief..
As for the extra hole, one idea...put 2 more right close, dimple the edges of all 3 inward, make them 'bullet holes', like someone used the shield part of the plate to sight in their hunting rifle.....
Thanks! The reason I think the neck length is affecting buzz is because there is some bow. I assume the bow would be less if the neck was shorter? I will check the neck relief.
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