Yeah I sand after cutting the slots and even after the fretboard is glued, might be easier to do it before cutting the slots but sometimes I do things backwards haven't had any problems either
I will be tapering to match the tuneomatic bridge and putting a truss rod on the six string.. it'll also be my first serious six string. I did one along time ago classical nylon string style I don't have it but compared to my stuff now I bet it was a mess!
Here is another question. Do you cut the slots for the frets before or after you have made a radius on the fingerboard? If you to it afterwards is it difficult to get a common depth for the holes? Do you taper your 6 string necks or add a truss rod? I'm about to try to make the leap to a 6 string neck.
Ask away! I just posted another shot of the fingerboard already sanded with the block sitting on it.
The wood I use for fingerboards is 1/4 inch more or less. I'll start putting up more building pics now that I've got alot of them going.. will be starting on a six string ammo guitar in the next few days
Thanks so much. I went and got a 12 inch sanding block from stewmac. How thick of wood did you use on the finger board. Thanks so much for sharing. I can't promise this will be my last question. I love your work!
i use a 12 inch radius sanding block from stewmac.com all you need to do is stick some sand paper on the block and go at it.. I'll leave a pencil line down the center of the fretboard and sand until it just gets taken away
in the other photo I posted you can see the tool I made to bend the fret wire.. a quick search will bring up a diy for that
I always over bend the wire quite a bit for these smaller necks so it knocks in and stays especially on the edges
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Yeah I sand after cutting the slots and even after the fretboard is glued, might be easier to do it before cutting the slots but sometimes I do things backwards haven't had any problems either
I will be tapering to match the tuneomatic bridge and putting a truss rod on the six string.. it'll also be my first serious six string. I did one along time ago classical nylon string style I don't have it but compared to my stuff now I bet it was a mess!
Here is another question. Do you cut the slots for the frets before or after you have made a radius on the fingerboard? If you to it afterwards is it difficult to get a common depth for the holes? Do you taper your 6 string necks or add a truss rod? I'm about to try to make the leap to a 6 string neck.
Ask away! I just posted another shot of the fingerboard already sanded with the block sitting on it.
The wood I use for fingerboards is 1/4 inch more or less. I'll start putting up more building pics now that I've got alot of them going.. will be starting on a six string ammo guitar in the next few days
Thanks so much. I went and got a 12 inch sanding block from stewmac. How thick of wood did you use on the finger board. Thanks so much for sharing. I can't promise this will be my last question. I love your work!
i use a 12 inch radius sanding block from stewmac.com all you need to do is stick some sand paper on the block and go at it.. I'll leave a pencil line down the center of the fretboard and sand until it just gets taken away
in the other photo I posted you can see the tool I made to bend the fret wire.. a quick search will bring up a diy for that
I always over bend the wire quite a bit for these smaller necks so it knocks in and stays especially on the edges
Nice radius! I need to learn how to do this. Where can I read about it? Is there a specific tool? Please share!