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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on December 11, 2014 at 11:21am

Thanks. I'm on it...

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Permalink Reply by Will King on December 11, 2014 at 5:13am

I have had the problem of one or the other being too wide.  After a closer look at the stock at Home Depot, I found that the Red Oak is always wider that the Alder fret board and the Poplar varies a lot in width.  I match the two right in the store before buying and that has solved that problem.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on December 11, 2014 at 5:31am

Probably the only time I didn't...and only time I actually needed to..
All the other times weren't a hurry at all. I basically wasted 3 crucial days...can't do veneer or fine tune a cheap plane....it's ditch and repeat...on this one. My son is helping I'm beat

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on December 12, 2014 at 12:10am

Don't scrap it,what I suggested doesn't take long,fret it and edge it then glue it on using pins or staples like Chickenbone John says.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on December 12, 2014 at 5:16am

I think I'd need to see this being done ....doesn't sound too complicated but I'm a visual person when it comes to something like this....

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Permalink Reply by JL on December 12, 2014 at 4:58am

Take your electric belt sander with 80 grit, clamp it upside down in your vice sanding belt up and you can do the ends of the frets, relieve the edge of the fret board, AND narrow down the neck to a perfect match.

Someone else here posted a short video of just that and my jaw dropped, he did in 3 min what took me 3 hours by hand the night before.   

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