{"id":730,"date":"2016-09-20T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=730"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:18:15","slug":"fretboard-prep-sept-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Fretboard prep &#8211; Sept 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/109-neckradius.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a break on the guitar project, I&#8217;ve dived back into working on the neck. First job is to radius the fretboard (going for a 12&#8243; radius on this one). I&#8217;ll see how it compares to the 10&#8243; on my MusicMan Axis Super Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Fretting has been the weakest area of the previous two guitars, so I decided to change my approach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/110-flatten1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used an iterative approach of moving between flattening the fretbaord and radiusing the board. Using pencil marks to find the high spots, I worked until the fretboard was flat along it&#8217;s length with the correct curvature across. Interestingly you can see the high spots are at two defined points.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/111-flatten2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/112-flattern3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of a break on the guitar project, I&#8217;ve dived back into working on the neck. First job is to radius the fretboard (going for a 12&#8243; radius on this one). I&#8217;ll see how it compares to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}