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Ok, now that John's closed the retail shop, where are folks finding just 1 or 2 faux-bound fretboards?

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I'm not sure what you mean by 'faux-bound', but if it's the same as this, than Bob Garrish does it.

http://www.saintlutherie.com/fretboards.html

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

Hi Alain,

Yep, that's exactly what I'm after, but I only need 1 or 2...Bob does a great job but is only doing large quantities...thanks for the post tho...

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If you are wanting a board in ebony or rosewood (wouldn't work for lighter coloured boards) you can make your own by cutting two strips off either side of the board before slotting the blank then gluing them back on once the board's tapered. Just make sure you glue the strip back onto the side it was cut from, that way any grain feature is closely matched. I'm doing a couple of boards like this at the moment.
Strips & slots cut (I usually just put some witness marks on to make sure I can't get the strips on the wrong side or wrong way around)

Fingerboard radiused ready for fretting

& finally with the frets just put in


I got this method from a comment Micheal Collins made in his excellent DVD series on building Selmer Maccaferri's. He used to do it this way but he too, get's Bob Garrish to do his now.

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Nick Oliver

http://www.oliver-guitars.com

Thanks Nick and Todd...yes, I've done that same thing and it does work great...I'm just in a spot at the moment where the quickest way out would be the faux-bounds already done...I think I'll just order some unslotted ebony blanks and go the long way from here...thanks again to all who responded...

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