4th CBG - can't do much to pretty up these boxes but they sound good. Made a piezo rob bridge for the first time too.
Also, made a cigar box fairy door from scraps. Yay! Daughter is delighted.
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I doubt yours are untidy at all. It's just worth bearing in mind if someone hasn't used stain as position markers before.
Yes. I stained after fretting the first time - school boy error. It just pools around the frets and it's more difficult to get a decent consistent stain.
Cutting fret slots first also means that you can use the cuts for the painter's tape to slot into and mask the fret board up tidy. So no stain gets onto the parts you want unstained.
Rubbing the stain rather than brushing gives a better finish too.
I think i'll go back to trying fret marker dots at some point but staining the frets works ok for me at the moment and along with others who do the same thing on here, makes the guitars look different and serves it's purpose well.
The issue i have then is that the stain runs to the side of the fretboard. Not so much of a problem for me because i bind them to hide my sloppy fretwork. But if anyone else is considering doing this, it's worth thinking about how to avoid that if you're fretboards are not going to have binding.
Wood stain. I'm really bad at drilling and making frets look nice and tidy so this is the easiest option for me. I've seen others on here do it to but they may do it differently. I've only built 4 though.
So i:
* Cut the fret slots
* mask the fretboard with painter's tape
* rub (not brush) wood stain on the exposed parts ( i have ebony for black boxes too)
* add the frets
* use modelling hardwood strips as binding (2mmx6mm) - my fretboards are 6mm thick.
Comes out quite nice and i haven't ripped wood out of the fretboard trying to drill for dot markers.
cool, what did you use for the neck colors. Are they painted on?
I do the same thing and sometimes have the same problem.
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