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Fretboard thickness?
I’m currently re-cad drawing my instruments, and I always wandered what other builderd use as standard fretboard thicnkess (before radiusing). I usually used 6mm over the years but I’m considering switching to a more thick 7.5mm. Mostly cause I have a wide collection of curly ebony I finally decide to use, and those are about 8mm thick, and seem a waste to thickness-sand 2mm of it.
What’s yours? Or, there’s a more ‘ridgid’ standard about it that I never knew?
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No one?
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I’ll reply: The thicker the fretboard, the thinner the neck will be. I would be more concerned with thinning out the neck. That mass is going to have to come from somewhere.
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Mmm my standard neck is 20mm + the fretboard, currently
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I make acoustic guitars, which are 21mm at the 1st fret. If the fretboard is 5mm, which leaves 16mm for the neck, plus a truss rod that is 10 mm, which leaves only 6 mm of wood behind the truss rod, I wouldn’t want less than that.
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So your standard wood size before machining is 21mm for the neck and 6mm for the fretboard?
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total of 21mm thick for the neck at the 1st fret. 5mm- 6 mm for the fretboard and 15 -16 mm for the neck.
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