Esteemed luthiers,
I recently spent two nights trying to get rid of some fingerboard buzzing around the E on the G String. I followed advice out of the Traeger book (I thought it was safe to listen to him on this one) as well as read Jeff Bollbach's rants on his site about the subject of fingerboard dressing. I have some wood skills, a japanese scraper, really nice mahogany 1" Rabbit Plane, a straight edge, and a light lying around so I thought I'd give it a go. I'd mark out the high peaks, planed what I could and scraped the rest, followed by sandpaper and #0000 steel wool and then a coat of Boiled Linseed Oil.
Looks like I was pretty much successful. The buzz is gone and I worked slowly a little at a time. The FB is smooth under the G string and there's no more buzz at the E on the G... but....
As I go further down the fingerboard, there's some spots that sorta sound like buzzing, but they aren't irritating at all. I would dare say that some might consider the psuedo-buzzing as the character of the bass. So... do you pros get to a point where you kinda stop scooping out the camber and say... "that's good enough?" or do you go all the way and make sure you get that pure pure tone without anything that remotely sounds like a slight buzz?
This is on my EUB btw (mentioned in the EUB Forum).
I recently spent two nights trying to get rid of some fingerboard buzzing around the E on the G String. I followed advice out of the Traeger book (I thought it was safe to listen to him on this one) as well as read Jeff Bollbach's rants on his site about the subject of fingerboard dressing. I have some wood skills, a japanese scraper, really nice mahogany 1" Rabbit Plane, a straight edge, and a light lying around so I thought I'd give it a go. I'd mark out the high peaks, planed what I could and scraped the rest, followed by sandpaper and #0000 steel wool and then a coat of Boiled Linseed Oil.
Looks like I was pretty much successful. The buzz is gone and I worked slowly a little at a time. The FB is smooth under the G string and there's no more buzz at the E on the G... but....
As I go further down the fingerboard, there's some spots that sorta sound like buzzing, but they aren't irritating at all. I would dare say that some might consider the psuedo-buzzing as the character of the bass. So... do you pros get to a point where you kinda stop scooping out the camber and say... "that's good enough?" or do you go all the way and make sure you get that pure pure tone without anything that remotely sounds like a slight buzz?
This is on my EUB btw (mentioned in the EUB Forum).
