StrangeWings Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Just introducing myself. I've been playing guitar since about 1990. (Wow...it's been awhile. Shame I didn't practice more. I'd be a lot better.) I always wanted to build a guitar but never got around to it. I'm finally starting my first project. I'm starting with a factory ibanez s8 body and plan on refinishing it. I want to replace the fretboard with a maple one. It's going to take awhile to complete. I'm a stay at home dad of 4 kids so time is not something I have a lot of. But eventually I will get it done. Quote Link to comment
sdshirtman Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Welcome to the forum. Sounds like an interesting project to get your feet wet with. Quote Link to comment
demonx Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Welcome to the forum. I just replaced the fingerboard on a customers guitar two weeks ago - if I knew there was a newbie wanting to do it I would have snapped some progress pics. In a nut shell I used a heatgun to heat up the existing board (technically the glue underneath) and pried it off with a paint scraper. I thin used a scraped (wood carving scraper, not paint scraper) to clean up the surface and simply made a new ziricote fingerboard to replace the rosewood one. I replaced the truss rod while I was there as it was the reason for the repair in the first place. Quote Link to comment
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