I’m having second thoughts on the recap & carve it approach.   Takes an hour or two to assemble a guitar, and maybe 10mins to strip it all back – and only that long because I desoldered everything rather than…   Read more»

@tv101 
You are correct I think. I did a new fretboard for a professional jazz player two years ago and this is what he said.

@tv101 I put mine through the planer thicknesser but obviously sanding is even smoother.
 
But yeh, lots of people use that set up on various small pieces with good success, me, think I’ll just use the no7 handplane lol

@tv101 the thing that gets me is a compound radius, they’re often 12 to 16 but there’s so little in it it seems a bit pointless. I think between a 7.5 or 9 and a 16 you’d notice it more…   Read more»

@robin a tighter radius is meant to be more comfortable for chords but if bending a string doing solos the string can choke out because you’re pushing up hill so to speak. With a flatter radius you can have the…   Read more»