Here's a setup to reduce one $16 hunk of rosewood into 3 or 4 usable fretboard blanks. That's a REALLY nice blade installed in the bandsaw there (Timberwolf if you're interested).
Also while I had everything set up I thought why not resaw the headstock top wood. So that's that nice flamed maple you saw earlier, about 1/8" thick.
Here I am gluing some new wings onto the new headstock blanks to make it wide enough.
Here's one of the trickiest bandsaw operations you can do. This is a resaw to make thinner stock. It's much easier with that wonderful blade. This saw could really use some new blade guides though. Someday I'll cough up $150 for the nice Carter guides.
Everything gluing up with the fretboard blank just laying there for effect. That block at the bottom is one of my favorite table saw tools - a 2x4 push block. Keep them fingers on the fretboard and out of the operating room!!
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