New fretboard
I have a nice Japanese acoustic Daion L-999 that I bought twenty years ago when it was already out of production since the early eighties. I re-fretted it several times and now the fretboard is very thin (I wasn't experienced and the first times I've gone heavy with the sand-paper!). I'd like to put on a new ebony fretboard, bound with maple, but this is a job I never did. I tried to find some how-to-do-it on Frank's pages but I haven't find. Any advice (apart having it made by a skilled luthier!!)?
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Permalink Reply by Russell Vance on
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Gotta be quick, I'm off to work - you can either remove the old fret board with a heat blanket or judicious use of a heat gun and a palate knife or you can machine/plane the old board off down to the last couple of thousands of the original fingerboard and glue the new board, pre bound and prefretted if you wish, onto the remains of the old board using a stiff conformal caul to keep the new unit flat. Dont forget to back off the truss rod before gluing. the joy of planing down the board rather than using the heat knife is that the original neck finish can usually be preserved and the remains of the original board blend in well or in the event of a contrast look like a line of horizontal binding. Rusty.
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Permalink Reply by Antonio Cotichini on
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I think I'll go with plane.Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Donald A. Fortune on
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Hi Antonio -- new fret boards can be ordered from stew mac.com or from LMI .com and the fret slots can be in the board and it can already be radius too prices very depending on material ect.
Follow Russel Vance's advice on removing the old board and GL with your adventure-- be safe
Donald
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I'll give a look to their catalogues, but I know a couple of luthiers here that can have that material. Anyway,thank you Donald.
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Pleasure is all mine Antonio :-)
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