In this video I scallop an Ibanez RG that I recently purchased. I go over the types of files and sandpaper required to do the job.(skip to 4 minutes for commentary) Enjoy!
Great tips here! I love the sticky back sandpaper on the finger. I'm scalloping a maple fretboard now and it's taking forever. I cut up a bicycle inner tube to cover the frets. I wrap those pieces around over each adjoining fret and secure with spring clamps. I like your tape method too. I also put the heel of the neck in a padded vise to hold it.
I've been using old truss rods for jigs . The c channel in them work fairly good when the jig is over a fret . I take the threaded rod out and I radius the aluminum truss rod to what ever freeboard I'm doing . Usually 4 peices of the rod I cut each about 5 inches or so after its radius stacks of 2 on each side they get joined with a strip of steel berry be thin and channeled in the middle like a fret protector . This allows spacing adjustment for my Dremel in a fret. It's saved me so much time and the scollop has the radius of the Fret also . Took years to finally get this jig to be usefull instead of a headache .
Great work! I’m thinking of doing this job on a strat copy neck with a 7.25 inch fretboard radius. How do you know how low or deep to go with the scalloping? I imagine it’s personal preference, but generally speaking...? Also, would the process on a maple neck be the same? Thanks for the video!
Totally personal preference. Some like it shallow like the Ritchei Blackmore strat and some deep like the Yngwie. Mine is on the deep side. Maple will be the same job.
Any thoughts of using an oscillating spindle sander to do most of the removal and then just touch it up with sandpaper and steel wool? I wouldn't trust my depth consistency with a dremel or keeping a file flat to ensure uniformity.
Good work, I'm thinking on scalloping a gretsch, but the bindings are quite dense. I did a shallow scallop on a sterling By MM silhouette that came out very good, just by using a file, sandpaper and steel wool, but I wonder if those simple tools will be useful for the gretsch bindings. Can you give me any advice on that? Thanks!!
I would like to do this myself but I worry that it being my first time I might ruin the neck. And I don't really have any cheap guitars to practice on.
how do you finish it.(polish) i have a guitar with a jatoba fretboard and one with maple neck i want to make the maple neck to have from 24 to 20 scalloped frets how do i finish maple fretboard
