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Coating a fingerboard. Flexible?


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Hi all,

A quick & probably naive question please:

 

I’m experimenting with a (dead) neck, and am wondering how flexible epoxy resin is.

Obviously, strings would be off for coating, but when the neck is strung & tuned, the neck will move. Will the resin move with it, or is there a risk of separation? This query also applies to truss-rod adjustment.

Or would super glue be better…?

Over to you legends please, I thank you! 🤘

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I have several fretless basses with coated fingerboards. These may be polyester (Pedulla) and others where I believe  polyurethane is the coating. In each case I have had no problems with separation even with periodic truss rod adjustments. I cannot speak from experience of super-glue (cyanoacrylate), but I would think that also to be pretty stable when coated correctly.

 

In summary, I wouldn’t worry and go for the material that best suits your needs and budget.

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