Slotted Fingerboard for Fender Bass

If the nut slot is moved to the first fret, the result is the 'forbidden' 32.1" scale. A medium scale has all the ease-of-plying of a short scale, without the sloppiness of too-loose strings. By shortening the neck to 19 frets, you can build a 32" drop-in replacement for a 34" neck. The 20th fret can be retained by letting it overhang like many guitar necks. For a truss rod, StewMac's "Martin-style" rod can be shortened to fit with little more than hand tools. The same operation at the second fret gives a true 30.3" short-scale, while the third fret gives a 28.6" baritone guitar. Of course, at that point you only have 21 frets left. 4 stars because the board I received was rather rough and not the nicest grain, although it cleaned up acceptably, and is straight and true, which is the most important thing. My almost-finished 32" Jazzmaster.

I got the ebony one and I knew that it wouldn't be a uniformly black but I found that the quality of the wood is medium and the radius needs a little work. However the slots are very precise and the bottom side is well planed.

Excellent product! No more words!

gostei muito do produto, atendeu minhas necessidades.

Nothing to complain about with this one. The ebony is not pure black, just like they warned, and I even prefer it with some sort of texture on, as it seems more natural. It seems to be radiused and even all around except for one tiny little flat spot I found, but it's near the very upper frets and probably won't make any noticeable difference in playing. The slots are nicely and accurately cut too; much better than I could do by hand!

I've bought many items over the years from Stewmac and by and large have been very pleased with most of them...unfortunate then that I feel compelled to write a review regarding the slotted bass fingerboard recently received. I usually cut my own slots on fingerboards but bought this ready cut board to save time on an experimental project I am working on. Straight out of the box the rosewood was a disappointing colour...uneven across the board, not great but 'one of those things'. However, that wasn't the only problem...the radius was very, VERY uneven, indeed, sighting a line along the edge of the board revealed numerous bumps and humps along the length, particularly on the 'bass' side. The fret slots as a result look to be of uneven depth too. As a professional luthier this isn't a great problem for me, but if this was being ordered by someone trying to make their first dream bass project...they might not have the tools and/or knowledge on how to deal with this...if you fretted this without rectifying these problems you could run into a whole heap of trouble when you come to set the bass up, I don't believe a playable bass could be made!...beware!!! C'mon guys...this one really shouldn't have got out...

Nice quality wood, no problem with the slotting, it also has plenty of wood in back of the nut slot. A negative is that the board is not graduated in thickness, a Fender style board has uniform thickness at the edges, not in the center as the Stew-Mac board has, it takes some work in addition to cutting to shape.

I bought this for my senior project for school. I built a custom bass guitar designed based off of the 1961 Fender Bass VI. I thought the design was pretty cool. So i set forth on taking the design and putting it into my own view, using this fingerboard for the neck.