quick one : need a maple board badly but...
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kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
Are we talking about removing the fretboard and putting a maple on or buying a new neck?
Are we talking about removing the fretboard and putting a maple on or buying a new neck?
ehdwuld
A Ficus
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
swapping the neck is easily the best answer
selling the sunburst and buying the one you want is second best answer
hacking off the fretboard to swap the slab is ....... ridiculous
new frets have to be cut in and installed on maple then the refinishing,
just incredible amount of work involved
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swap one and two
swapping the neck is easily the best answer
selling the sunburst and buying the one you want is second best answer
hacking off the fretboard to swap the slab is ....... ridiculous
new frets have to be cut in and installed on maple then the refinishing,
just incredible amount of work involved
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swap one and two
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Boogie Bill
New member
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
Why do you need a maple?
Swaps on the Aria would be difficult. I doubt it has a standard neck.
Best bet would be a new guitar, IMO.
Bill
Why do you need a maple?
Swaps on the Aria would be difficult. I doubt it has a standard neck.
Best bet would be a new guitar, IMO.
Bill
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
DO IT!
Its not hard removing them and gluing another on. The fret work will be the hard part.
DO IT!
Its not hard removing them and gluing another on. The fret work will be the hard part.
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
it really isn't that much work. Buy a pre-slotted fretboard that will take out a heap of the work. Removing the old fretboard takes around an hour. Glue on the new one. Run it around a router table with a trim bearing bit. Then fret and finish.
it really isn't that much work. Buy a pre-slotted fretboard that will take out a heap of the work. Removing the old fretboard takes around an hour. Glue on the new one. Run it around a router table with a trim bearing bit. Then fret and finish.
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
I dont have a router. Also what if the new fretboard is narrower ? Should one use standard PVA glue or animal glue which can be undone?
I dont have a router. Also what if the new fretboard is narrower ? Should one use standard PVA glue or animal glue which can be undone?
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
Use titebond original. Glue on a fretboard that is square at both ends then use the router table to trim it up to the neck.
I'm sure someone in your area would have one you could use.
Use titebond original. Glue on a fretboard that is square at both ends then use the router table to trim it up to the neck.
I'm sure someone in your area would have one you could use.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
I'd find another guitar you really like then sell the old one.
I have (now) two Strats that have been configured a bunch of different ways. Swapping necks on them made a pretty big difference, I was shocked (everything else being equal).
I'd find another guitar you really like then sell the old one.
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
I agree on the 1st sentence. This is my first guitar from 1984, so either I honor it by further modding it and playing it, or I retire this to my parents' house and buy a new one, but I have already 6....... :33:
I agree on the 1st sentence. This is my first guitar from 1984, so either I honor it by further modding it and playing it, or I retire this to my parents' house and buy a new one, but I have already 6....... :33:
rgand
New member
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
The neck contributes as a neck/fretboard combination. Changing the fret board will change the tone also. If you swap the neck, you could always go back to the original one if you want at some time in the future. Warmoth sells necks with both the modern Strat and CBS Strat headstocks. You could go with the CBS and have the same shape. BTW, I also like the CBS headstock. Been thinking of putting one on my Tele.
The neck contributes as a neck/fretboard combination. Changing the fret board will change the tone also. If you swap the neck, you could always go back to the original one if you want at some time in the future. Warmoth sells necks with both the modern Strat and CBS Strat headstocks. You could go with the CBS and have the same shape. BTW, I also like the CBS headstock. Been thinking of putting one on my Tele.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
I understand, I'll never get rid of my Epiphone Les Paul. It was my first real guitar.
I understand, I'll never get rid of my Epiphone Les Paul. It was my first real guitar.
Re: quick one : need a maple board badly but...
You're asking a question that only YOU can answer!
You're asking a question that only YOU can answer!
