I've been building an electric guitar from scratch for a little bit now, and have just finished routing the truss rod cavity for the neck. Although I have basic woodworking experience, I thought it'd be best to ask my question here as I'm not too sure whether this is something I should be cautious with as this is my first time building an electric guitar from scratch.
The wood for the fretboard I've purchased and planed has become slightly warped by about 1mm, with one short edge twisted slightly from the other causing a not perfectly flat contact surface. However, if it's clamped, the gap disappears completely. Usually I wouldn't care so much about this issue if this were another woodworking project, but I know that extra strain on the neck is not really a brilliant thing and I'm unsure whether this natural warp will pull against the neck in a non-ideal manner. I could however be entirely overthinking this issue, and gluing it could yield no issue.
Other notes are that the neck (top) is blackwood, and the fretboard (bottom) is spotted gum.
Would it be best if I tried to remove this warp? Or do you reckon it shouldn't really be an issue and I'm just being too cautious? Any advice is appreciated :)
Judging from the photo your fretboard still around the 10mm thick mark?
If so you have plenty of meat to play with as fretboard is usually down to around 6mm.
I have glued boards with similar gaps before with no issue but if concerned remove the warp. You are going to have to thin down a bit anyway.
Cheers for the response! It's about 7mm thick at the moment, so I didn't want to do too much thinning beforehand. If you reckon it'll still work without dewarping, I'll give it a shot! Fortunately the wood I'm using wasn't super costly so I can get more if it goes awry.
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