This weekend I did a lot of work. I started out planing the fingerboard again, because I wasn’t happy with the result. Then I marked the fret positions with a knife and checked and corrected them afterwards. I think my tolerance was about 0,07 mm on average, so that’s good enough for a start.

Having marked the fret positions it was time to cut the fret slots using the jig I made. So far everything went fine, but after a first cut they weren’t deep enough. I did a second ‘run’, measuring the depth with a caliper. It was very hard to cut the slots nice and clean, because the saw tends to get stuck in the very narrow slot. I scratched the board by accident a few times, but nothing that couldn’t be solved with some sandpaper.

Getting this far I immediately jumped into the glueing part. I took less preparation time for this then I’m used to, but it seemed to go well. Afterwards I routed the fingerboard flush with the neck and sanded the whole neck and fingerboard with different grades of sanding paper.

I am more or less happy with the result, although I am sure I could do better. So I’ll call it a day and let it rest before I move on to shaping the back of the neck.