Mitch Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Hi everyone! It has been a little while since I last posted as I took a 2 or 3 year break from guitar making. I'm 17 now and hopefully my gain in patience will more than compensate for my forgetting of knowledge. It's great to be back! Anyway, I'm building a 5-string electric bass at the moment and I'm mapping out the fretboard to find what shape I need to cut it to. On basses, the standard gap between the outer edge of the string and the edge of the fretboard is 4mm. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried making a tapered gap, maybe a 3mm gap at the nut to a 5mm gap at the 12th fret. It would make sense as, near the nut, the string is less likely to slip off the edge of the fretboard. Thanks for your help. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpm99 Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 There's no reason that shouldn't work, but why do you need it, or a compound radius, for that matter? Are you doing string bends or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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