So I guess I forgot to take a couple pics, but I guess I don't want EVERY step being shown. Anyways, last I left off, I had bound the fingerboard and inlayed it. Once I had sanded the binding down flush and polished up the fretboard, I went ahead and glued it onto the neck. After letting that set overnight, I trimmed down the neck a little bit and hammered and glued in all the frets.
It took some work to get a couple of the frets in, one of my strips/rolls of fretwire had a super tight radius, so the last few frets kept popping out. I ended up using a thicker viscosity (sp?) superglue on those and clamped them in overnight.
This morning I did all the levelling/bevelling/crowning on them. I ended up having to use a traditional 3 sided file for some of the troublesome frets to get them to fit into my crowning file. After that, I gave the whole fretboard a polishing, and set up a jig for my handheld belt sander to make it work as a stationary sander and sanded the rest of the neck flush with the fretboard. Now its ready for shaping, which I'll tackle after lunch.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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