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I was just wondering if it would be possible to compensate for the neck angle by thicknessing the fingerboard thicker than 1/4in towards the body. Perhaps it would be easier to just angle the tenon but you could get two fingerboards out of a thicker piece of wood, say 3/4in, by cutting it on an angle. Just wondering.

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Yes it is possible but you might run into problems with the functionalities of the trussrod and you might have to thicken up the neck a bit to fit the truss rod in there. And you will get maybe 3 fretboards out of a ¾ piece of wood if you keep them evenly thicknessed.

I think that it is a much harder job to taper the fretboard than to cut an angle into the tenon.

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