Wednesday - Frets and finish

Today we prepared the neck to accept the fretboard. This required some hand work to allow the truss rod to be installed. We then prepared the fretboard to be glued on by drilling a couple pilot holes and installing steel brads for positioning it in a perfect placement. Then we glued and clamped the fretboard to the neck.

Positioning the neck for gluing

After the neck was glued and clamped we "flattened" the length of the neck perfectly with a hand plane. We then also put a slight radius along the entire width of the neck with a hand plane. Hand tools and patience. Amazing.

After this, we cut and placed the frets in the slots with a hammer and slight pressure in the vise.

Placing the fret wire

I ended up resanding my top as there were several scratches that were bugging me. It looks a lot better, although it is a very soft wood and easily dinged.