Rolling a gloss maple fingerboard edge advice

mark123

I've just aquired a great classic vibe tele ,but the fingerboard edges are too sharp .
i want a nice played in feel
I've looked at a few methods online and generally its a stanley knife blade scraping the edges .
My worry is its a gloss neck so will it chip ? Am i better sanding ?
I know it would take twice as long if not more .
Any tips? videos? for rolling a gloss maple fingerboard edge ?

octatonic

Rolling the fingerboard edges could potentially make the sharp fret ends worse, not better.
Are you sure you mean this:



Fret edges can be solved with a fret dress, by a competent tech.

Rolling the fingerboard edges will mean you need to refinish the fingerboard.

skunkwerx

What he said ^^ 

If its a maple board, it will be finished. So would need stripping, then rolling, then respraying really.  

John_A

Use a tremolo arm to compress the edges rather than scrape them, you may still chip the finish though

jaymenon

So if you get an unfinished neck with a maple fingerboard, how would you go about rolling the edges please?

Stanley knife?

..and of course apply the finish after that...

thegummy

When I looked in to this I concluded it wasn't really viable to roll the edges after it has been finished.

That's the only reason I bought an American neck even though it cost as much as the whole Mexican Strat I put it on.

victorludorum

Sand the edges so that the paint doesn't chip. Roll the edges as you wish (scraper, screwdriver, etc etc) and then finish the raw edges with oil/Wudtone/Tru-Oil etc

WezV

jaymenon said:

So if you get an unfinished neck with a maple fingerboard, how would you go about rolling the edges please?

Stanley knife?

..and of course apply the finish after that...

I do a gentle scrape with fresh stanley knife or razor blade

The blade is held very lightly to just skim the edges.  I tend to move from almost flat against fretboard to almost vertical with fretboard edge to get the rolled feel.  Moving back and firth if its for a slightly scalloped edge, or consistently in one direction  for a consistent rollover.  

Old vid I did showing the motion