The fret board on your electric guitar might appear to be flat, but it isn’t.
Like a violin, your guitar’s fret board has a side-to-side curve to it. If you could extend that curve into a complete circle, you could measure the radius of that circle.
In general, playing chords near the nut of the guitar is easier if the [...]
Here’s another murky topic - fretboard cleaning and maintenance. I suspect most guitarists never touch their guitars’ fretboards, except to play them.
Nowadays, there are several products on the market that claim to clean and condition the fretboard of your guitar. They mostly use lemon oil, plus some added ingredients aimed at making the job as easy [...]
Most guitars have rosewood fretboards. It’s been that way for several decades. In the 1960’s even cheap guitars used Brazilian rosewood for the fretboards. But those rainforests are protected now, and there is no secure supply of Brazilian rosewood anymore. Enter - the Indian rosewood fretboards.
Indian rosewood typically does not have as much grain as Brazilian [...]
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