Regluing a Rickenbacker fretboard
Issue 247 July 30, 2015
Did you know you can tap the truss rods right out of a Rickenbacker neck? Erick Coleman shows how, and he removes the fingerboard from a troubled RIC guitar neck using a household iron!
About the guitar in this video: This Rickenbacker 480 is from the 1970s. It’s a six-string with a body and peghead shape resembling the RIC 4000-series basses.
- How Rickenbacker truss rods slide out of the neck.
- A modified Fingerboard Removal Knife protects the peghead.
- A household iron heats the glue so the fretboard lifts off.
- Indexing pins keep the board lined up for regluing.
