Guitars and amps and pedals may come and go, but the butterscotch Warmoth partscaster on the RHS of the first photo has been a constant in my playing life for nearly 30 years; I bought the neck and body in person at Warmoth's sawmill in Puyallup in the mid '90s when I was working briefly in Seattle. Since then it has been subject to much abuse, but is now playing out its twilight years strung with 12s and a Lollar Charlie Christian neck pickup. However...I always disliked the 22 fret neck (despite its fab boatneck profile), and resolved to convert this to a more vintage appropriate 21 frets.
https://i.imgur.com/nekh3NN.jpgCue the purchase of a (very sharp) Japanese joinery saw...
https://i.imgur.com/SJRWvh9.jpgI started by cutting along the line of the 22nd fret (which had of course been removed...)
https://i.imgur.com/ohOuRN3.jpgThen made a vertical cut parallel to the maple cap...
https://i.imgur.com/6Zx0aTK.jpgEventually producing a ledge at the end of the fretboard, and two pieces of ex-fretboard...
https://i.imgur.com/1k2W8xe.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/lXrUPk2.jpgThe larger of the two pieces was then glued in, sanded, re-stained with a water-based dye, and mildly distressed..
https://i.imgur.com/TSszU1E.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/YOdmCKe.jpgThe completed conversion. Far from perfect, but in the spirit of the one guitar I have owned most of my adult playing life...
https://i.imgur.com/ykhYqEc.jpgps: there are probably many better and more elegant ways of doing this...
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