Then I cut it flush with an old Mora knife. Almost anything to avoid using a router and a flush cutting bit like real builders do.
I slotted the fretboards for the soprano and the reso (also a soprano, natch) and tapered them to the exact dimensions. Careful measuring and delicate cutting.
Well, sort of delicate anyway. If I need to hog away larger amounts of material I will reach for a larger tool.
Then I sneak up on the line with a sharp hand plane, this time my Record number 7.
This is how they look with the ends sort of shaped but before position markers and frets.
I press the frets in before glueing the boards on, using my own version of a much more expensive fret press.
I let two of the position markers stick out through the fretboard. The markers are pieces of styrene rod so it’s easy to use it as dowels that prevent slipping.
And I started working on the bridge too. It’s also ipe, or lapacho as we learned in the last post.
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