| Gavin, here is your fretboard with the
vine. It looks great!!! Fantastic actually but the pictures don't really
show how cool it is. I am such a lame photographer that the pictures don't
even begin to show the iridescent blue and colors in the vine. Lots of blue
in it. The leaves are super cool! They flash all kinds of blue, pink, gold,
and green. The slightest movement and they flash colors. It is like a
rainbow or the colors you see when there is oil on water and the rainbow
comes up from that. Check out the killer grain too on the Brazilian Rosewood
fretboard! I have the stainless steel frets in. I milled the slots to .023
inches with a .020" endmill. Then I shot epoxy in the slots. The next step
was to press each fret in. After that, I clamped everything down with this
1.75" thick aluminum plate that has the fretboard radius cut into it. This
makes it so that the frets are exactly level and perfectly seated on the
fretboard. It also means that they won't ever be able to lift or come up.
The fretboard is incredibly dry but this further assures that the fret ends
won't be able to poke out. Since they are stainless steel, they should be
extremely tough and should last forever. I still need to trim them but my
hands are all blistered up from doing finishing and these frets are REALLY
hard on your hands when you try to cut them. Stainless steel is so hard that
it is very difficult to cut the ends. The first few are okay, but after you
do 48 of them, your hands aren't happy with you. |
