@tej
Pulley would be a better idea for safety

@jonhodgson
Thanks I’m not a electric player although I’ve re fretted a few.

@tej If you’re still thinking about making this I had another idea. A threaded mechanism could unwind depending on the direction of rotation, so following on from Robin’s idea of drilling a hole and using a pin to hold the…   Read more»

@tv101 I watched a utube video on this last year, think it might have been Texas Toast Guitars where he radiused a fretboard then put a different curve template over it. A sheet of paper wouldn’t go underneath at roughly…   Read more»

@tv101
Thanks for filling in the blanks on black plastic, I thought there would be a longer story.

@boo
Different very innovative 

Professional builders aren’t offended by customers having specific requirements like no black plastic. It all adds to the challenge and it’s a great sense of achievement when you can tick all the boxes.