The proper humidity will prevent it from drying out or becoming too wet.

The cleaning of your hands will keep it clean and.The oils in your fingers are enough to keep the ebony oiled.This school of thought maintains that if you clean your hands before every guitar session and keep your guitar in a humidity controlled environment, then you don?t need to do any kind of maintenance for your ebony fingerboard. Some guitarists are advocates of the do very little approach. 2.5.1 Photo Credits Option #1: The Minimalist Approach That might sound kinda fussy, but it's so much nicer and easier to work with nice flat stock, especially with a fret board.

Whether its cut it now or later, I'd probably use 3 stickers (1 towards each end and 1 in the middle) between the individual boards and sandwich the package between two flat and straight boards with some weight on the top and let it sit for awhile and give the moisture level a chance to balance out to your area. I always like to have some extra width so I can shift the fret board around a little bit to get the nicest grain orientation and avoid any ugly along the edges. It really depends on the billet and what type of saw you'll be using to re-saw it how wide the kerf is and how straight the cuts are. I think, depending on how the billet looks, I might cut one slice 2-1/3' wide from the best looking side, and then cut the remaining ~3' wide billet into four or possibly five more fretboards.Ĭutting it that way, depending on the grain orientation, might give you 4 flatsawn boards and 1 quarter-sawn board or vice-versa. As already mentioned, 2-1/3' is cutting it mighty close, you might have as much as an 1/8' to work with on a Tele fret board.

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