Can I pick your brains? How would you solve this puzzle....

[Robin Hewitt]

Hi Hank

Perhaps you need a gun drill. You blast air through to clear the chips so they don't push you off course. (Oil or oil air mix if drilling guns)

You spin the wood. The axis of rotation defining a straight line through the part where the wood is moving slowest. IIRC the gun drill shies away from the faster cut and automatically centres itself on the axis.

I have some long gun drill bits if you want pics.

Knowlege exhausted

Robin

EDIT: PS: Suggest, drill the hole, cut the neck around it

[blackburn mark]

i allways assumed the tension rod ran down a slot that you would cut into the neck face and cover with the fret board ?
wouldnt work if your just adding a veneer as the fret board

i would s**t myself trying to drill over that distance

you have got me thinking now!!

if the standard is to bond your fret board over the slot then it would be easy .....

iv just measured one of mine.... the fret board is 5mm deap, rose wood i think

[blackburn mark]

you beat me to it rick..... they are just slotted buy the look of them :)

[Ricardoco]

i would s**t myself trying to drill over that distance

And you beat me to that!!!

I'm not joking they were the exact words i thought when i read the post!!!:rofl:

[blackburn mark]

And you beat me to that!!!

I'm not joking they were the exact words i thought when i read the post!!!:rofl:

hahahaha!!! i reckon you owe us a cake hankmcspank for saving you the nightmare:lol:

[HankMcSpank]

no it's not for a truss rod - it's for wires (LED fret markers).

Agreed, it's an onerous task, but believe me, I'd sh*t myself more by way of heating the fretboard with steam, prizing it off with lever, routing some wire channels, sanding the glue off the fretboard and neck, and then putting it all back together and then aligning it back up - ie aka this guy's way...


http://acapella.harmony-central.com/...-inlay-project.

....drilling a hole down the neck is the way to go!

I've knocked up a small 12 led (10 channel) led chaser & want to fit some LEDs in the fretmarkers of my cheap guitar as an experiment.

[blackburn mark]

WHAT???? you mean no cake???? downer!!!.....

it makes some sense now.... id be tempted to explore the posibility of drilling side on under the frettboard to the truss rod cavity
and pray there is enough room in there for your wires

can you still get the truss rod out ?

[HankMcSpank]

can you still get the truss rod out ?

Not understanding the question, I've not done anything yet, I'm at the preliminary stage asking for ideas/info how to drill a long thin hole :naughty:- where does the truss rod fit into this line of thinking?!