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PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:51 pm 
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Is there another way to remove or keep finish off the fretboard extension area on the body of the guitar other than taping off that area?

If you tape off the area, What kind of tape do you like and how far from the fretboard edge do you put back?

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:36 am 
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Yes, you can score and route off the lacquer (or use a very sharp chisel). When masking, I use sign maker's tape. It is very thin and low tack. I stay about .050 in from the footprint edge.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:43 am 
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Frisket low tack masking film, matt, set back a little from the outline about 0.75 mm.
It's only 1 thou thick, finish levels over it, but you can still see it, even with silk/matt finishes.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:58 am 
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I use frisket film as well and in the same manner as Colin has described.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:22 pm 
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I use a razor blade as a mini card scraper to remove the finish.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:57 pm 
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I just used blue masking tape and set it around a sixteenth in.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:37 pm 
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What I do....
https://howardguitars.blogspot.com/2015/04/spray-finishing-masking-off-surfaces-i.html

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:53 pm 
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I'm with Haans. Blue masking tape about 1/16" in... Easy-peasy, nothing special...

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:10 pm 
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My fretboard extensions are bolt-on so no need to mask...

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