I'm working on a neck that I put a thin maple veneer head plate on and unfortunately my fret board placement isn't far enough up the neck to place the nut over the joint between the end of the maple and the walnut neck. Worse than that I don't have a crisp edge between the two so leaving it as is won't work in my opinion.
I've pondered this for a little while and think I have two options:
1) re-drill my fretboard alignment holes to place the fretboard close enough so the nut covers the joint. This would turn my 14th fret body joint into a 14th + 1/8", and move the bridge up accordingly. I don't think it will effect the sound ?
2) Inlay a piece of binding at the joint. This would look good I think as it would tie the purfling on each side together. But I'm concerned doing so may weaken my neck.
What would you do, or is there another option I haven't considered?
It's been frustrating the last couple of times I've been in the shop. Maybe in another thread I tell you about the bridge on my 6-string in process that is about an 1/8" too tall and how I didn't realize it until after I mounted it to the sound board.... with epoxy!
thanks for the help,
-darrel
I've pondered this for a little while and think I have two options:
1) re-drill my fretboard alignment holes to place the fretboard close enough so the nut covers the joint. This would turn my 14th fret body joint into a 14th + 1/8", and move the bridge up accordingly. I don't think it will effect the sound ?
2) Inlay a piece of binding at the joint. This would look good I think as it would tie the purfling on each side together. But I'm concerned doing so may weaken my neck.
What would you do, or is there another option I haven't considered?
It's been frustrating the last couple of times I've been in the shop. Maybe in another thread I tell you about the bridge on my 6-string in process that is about an 1/8" too tall and how I didn't realize it until after I mounted it to the sound board.... with epoxy!
thanks for the help,
-darrel