Yes, I'm not quite ready for biting off that much!
I've just not had the time or headspace to tackle this over the last few days. The straight edge sounds like a good idea - I think the 1st and 2nd frets are only slightly lower than the rest, in which case I think the easiest path will just be to sand the frets as usual, and end up with all but two of them being a little short. However, I'll reassess that when I check with the edge.
I do. There you go, I didn't realise that "up and down" is the way to do it. I'd have thought that would be more likely to end up in flat spots, which is probably why I'm going side to side. Also, I'm using sandpaper attached to the straight edge on a spirit level - are you, or are you using a radiuses block? What issues would you see with the side-to-side method?By "side to side" do you mean across the width of the fretboard?
Thanks Trevor!The all black is looking very nice. Great work.