you'll have to really bias your sanding to the high side.
shouldnt be too major an issue for the dots. Sand the buggers out and redo them
you'll have to really bias your sanding to the high side.
shouldnt be too major an issue for the dots. Sand the buggers out and redo them
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Hell yeah, paua styles!!Originally Posted by stan
Things may have changed, but the stock plastic dots I've replaced have been pretty thick, like in this post. The stock radius is generally 12", so if you're dropping it to 9.5" it may not take too much off the dots anyway. Good luck with it Barge.
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Making a radius sanding block
Weird for some reason the link didn't paste let's try again lol
http://youtu.be/CWN5AqNeDfE
Last edited by kimball492; 19-07-2015 at 01:34 PM.
good luck Barge, glad the build is continuing. Concentrate on sanding the high side and the dot markers may be ok. Is the high side on the dot or non dot (treble) side of the fingerboard ?
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Ahh yes, I remember this one. Great info Scott, I'll most definitely keep it in mind if things go pear shaped with the dots, thanks man.
I actually tried this method and it's a lot harder than it looks. It's all pretty straight forward up until the part where you have to plane the convex radius. It's all very well following the radius marks on the ends of the wood but trying to run them along the length of the timber with any sort of accuracy is extremely difficult. First attempt was a failure. Not sure if I'll have another go or move on and try a different technique.
The build was never not going to continue, but as I'd blown my budget I just didn't know how. I'm just lucky my beautiful missus took pity on me and bought me some tools, albiet tools that should have never had to of been purchased in the first place, thanks again Adam.
I'm not really going to know the true extent of the problem until I can get the frets off, mark with chalk and take a swipe with the radius beam, but just looking at it, the dip appears to be on the bass side of the dots and runs from roughly the 7th fret down to the nut.
I couldn't agree more but fail to see how that comment is relevant to this thread:P
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