Fingerboard: Roll your own?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

After owning it for a few months, I have finally got around to rolling the lower edge of the fingerboard on my Squier Jaguar short scale using the 'stubby screwdriver' technique - compress the wood between each pair frets with the side of the blade to round of the edge. This instantly made it feel like a more expensive bass.

Who else does this to their basses & what's your technique?

[Doctor J]

Yup, done it for years, to the point I find it almost uncomfortable to use those crazily sharp edges on your average fretboard. Someone call health and safety! I use a small flat file to to the basic rounding and then a couple of fine grades of sandpaper to smooth the whole thing. I do both sides though, for tone.

[tommorichards]

I just grabbed a sanding block and sandpaper and went to town. Smoothed it off with an abrasive sponge pad. Feels awesome. Havent tried it on a finished neck though, but i agree, turned a cheap MM copy neck into something almost like a real one.

[kevin_lindsay]

I have rolled the fingerboard edges on almost every Nass and guitar of every bass and guitar I've owned.

Only bass I haven't needed to donut on is my Fender Custom Shop 1961 Jazz Bass.