I need advice on removing a fingerboard

[tjclem]

I built a neck. Multi laminated Cherry, Wenge and Mahogany, set the truss rod in and put a Bubinga fingerboard on it. Then I started doing the back radius, I am building this for a woman and I was trying to make it thin. Yup I went too far with it and broke through the back into the truss rod slot. s the neck is trash. I would like to save the fingerboard if possible. I used regular tightbond to glue the FB on with. How can I remove it? Thanks ............tom

[FBB Custom]

You need to heat up the fingerboard with a clothes iron and slide or peel it off. It's hard to get them off in useable condition as they like to bend and stay heat-bent if you bend too hard pulling it off.

[tjclem]

I was afraid of that. I guess I will just plane the fingerboard off to save the truss rod.......T

[Tim Barber]

If the neck is really junk, you could just chisel it away until you can get the truss rod out the back, then carefully re-saw the fingerboard free from the neck wood on a bandsaw and clean it up.

[gyancey]

Originally Posted by tjclem

I was afraid of that. I guess I will just plane the fingerboard off to save the truss rod.......T

I'd go ahead and take the fingerboard off like Matt described. You'll have to do it someday so why not practice? I've had good luck heating and rebending fretboards in the other direction and having them come out flat enough to reuse.

[Cliff Bordwell]

Check this out.

http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/removal.htm

[Nick man]

I like Timmy's advie.

Just junk the neck and get it close enough so that you can just sand or scrape away whats left of the neck.

[tjclem]

Thanks all. I took the easy way out. I had some pent up anger and I took it out on the back of the neck and chiseled out the truss rod then I used my new Dewalt planer and planed the neck off of the fingerboard. I then used the fingerboard as a template to route out the shape of the new neck........t