Happy enough with how its gone so far so thought id throw up a few pics anyway..
anyway been thinking about doing this for ages, gave up thinnking and started doing. removed the frets with a soldering iron and plyers/knife(plyers didnt work too well and couldnt find better ones anyway no chips as i was very careful and wouldnt recommend anyone else do it this way.
i had to use the bass so restrung it for a while sounded great even like this though lost something when i went over the empty frets.
sawed the frets straight with a hacksaw so i didnt have to radius the veneer, which turned out very handy as the ebony veneer i bought was quite brittle and hard to but in straight lines so curves would have been impossible. while sawing i made a few mistakes but only surface scratches really.
anyway cut the ebony into strips and glued in witha decent wood glue left to dry for a few hours
sanded with a sanding block as i couldnt find a radius block. if anyone can tell me where i can get a fairly cheap one in europe somewhere(16mm i think) then i think i may get it and tidy it up a bit but as of yet i havent reatached the neck so i may be happy with how it is.
the frets are alot darker than they appear in certain pictures looks really nice against the fretboard anyway visible but not too visible.
all thats left is to get a set of flatwound strings sand it a little smoother for asthetics and possibly finish with a wax, oil or epoxy.
how necessary are any of these? is a raw board ok (i asked this question in a thread a few months ago and no one answered me. i have since read that no finish is normal enough and gets a different sound to epoxy but does this mean wax or nothing atall. either way can someone recommend me anything i need.
shall report back possibly with soundclips when its all up and running
