COOL ARTICLE ALERT: How to scallop guitar fretboards
The wonderful Mrs I Heart Guitar spotted this article on Make.com and shared it with me in Google Reader. Man, Google Reader’s so awesome but it doesn’t quite work properly on my office computer, so I don’t get to use it as much as I like… wait, focus Peter, back on track, there’s guitar stuff to talk about!
Ok, so the article on Make points to this article on Instructables.com which will take you through how to scallop a guitar neck. You’ll notice in the main picture that they’ve gone a little too deep and cut into their side inlay dots, but I think it looks kinda cool, and reminds me a bit of the little wedgie shapes adorning the soundholes of Baden acoustic guitars. If you want to avoid this happening, simply place a strip of tape along the edge of the neck juuuuuust covering the side dots, as a visual reminder to not file below the tape.
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Hi! I'm Peter Hodgson. I write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine (including my instructional column, 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God,' which has been running since 2007), guitarworld.com, Tone Deaf, Beat (including their weekly hard rock/metal column Crunch) and The Brag. And I'm Assistant Social Coordinator with Seymour Duncan.
I've been playing guitar since I was 8 years old, and I've been writing for magazines since I was 18. I've also worked as a guitar teacher (up to 50 students a week), a setup tech, a newspaper editor, and I've also dabbled in radio a little bit. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and my hobbies include drinking way too much coffee, and eating way too much Mexican food.
You can check out my guitar playing at Reverbnation or on YouTube, and feel free to email me at iheartguitarblog@gmail.com
I didn't think you could scallop a neck while the frets are in place – cool!