Fretboard/Fingerboard wood has small pits in it

[BenitoBassolini]

Hi Tb'ers!

I've been working on a project and today I got around to resawing and planing the fingerboard to approximate thickness. The piece I'm planning on using has some small pits in it; Too big to sand out and too small to ignore. What should I do? Is this piece usable?

[ewimsatt]

Sand it for a second to get some dust from the piece of wood, then mix that dust with CA superglue and use that to fill the pits.

[Mikey R]

Originally Posted by ewimsatt

Sand it for a second to get some dust from the piece of wood, then mix that dust with CA superglue and use that to fill the pits.

Would this leave soft spots where the pits were? If a fret was placed over one of the pits, would it cause the string to sound different when fretted?

Would it be better to plane the board down to get rid of the pits, then put a veneer on the back to make up the thickness?

[ewimsatt]

Originally Posted by Mikey R

Would this leave soft spots where the pits were?

No

]If a fret was placed over one of the pits, would it cause the string to sound different when fretted?

No

Would it be better to plane the board down to get rid of the pits, then put a veneer on the back to make up the thickness?

That would just be an asthetic choice. How do you know that if you sand down you wont find more pits? I was just do the fix I stated above.

[Mikey R]

Originally Posted by ewimsatt

...How do you know that if you sand down you wont find more pits?...

Hmm, Ive never used really dense wood, Im still working with a maple fingerboard - are denser woods prone to this kind of problem? Would there be any way to tell before resawing that you might run into this kind of problem?

Cheers!

[Larry Davis]

What exactly do you mean by "pits"?? maybe the wood chipped in the planer?? How about a quality photo of the subject, please...