Pre-Slotted/Pre-Radiused Fingerboards

[Bruce Johnson]

Is that advice the same for both dual action and single action truss rods?

Yep.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Yep.

Heh! Glad I had to tighten my trussrod a little anyway to cancel a tiny backbox before I started leveling the fingerboard! I'm hoping I would have thought to do it anyway but.... probably not!

 

[chinjazz]

Let it be free! Letting it sit for a few days before fretting it isn't a bad idea anyway. If it's going to move or bow or something, you want to know about it. So you can correct it before you go farther.

If you really want to do the job right, tighten the truss rod partway and let it sit for a few days. Then check it and see what it does. Leaving the truss rod partly tight, true up the fingerboard surface, making it flat. Then put in the frets and level them, still keeping the truss rod partly tight.

That's the formula for a stable neck that can be finely adjusted: With the strings off and the truss rod maybe halfway tight, the fingerboard should be flat and the frets level.

I actually had good success with the fretboard glue up yesterday. Everything worked great with pinning the board, etc..

Clamps are now off, and I realized that I should probably rough cut the neck/fingerboard, and trim the neck to final width. Or should I wait a few days?

I noticed a few build threads where folks rough cut and trim the next day.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

You should be fine for trimming the edges, and other operations. The glue should be cured. My recommendation about waiting a few days before the final truing up of the fingerboard surface is to let the expansion of the boards settle out. You've glued two different boards together, hopefully forever, and they need to push against each other and come to an agreement.

 

[chinjazz]

You should be fine for trimming the edges, and other operations. The glue should be cured. My recommendation about waiting a few days before the final truing up of the fingerboard surface is to let the expansion of the boards settle out. You've glued two different boards together, hopefully forever, and they need to push against each other and come to an agreement.

Thanks for confirming . I had time on my hands this morning for taking care of business on this neck...

Now to tighten it up a bit and hang for a few days and re-inspect. Really finding it quite gratifying.