I guess all luthiers and wannabe luthiers make mistakes, but I have no idea how I missed this one! After inlaying the fretboard and installing frets and binding, I laid out the neck and hardware to begin figuring out the pickup routes. Do you see a problem in the picture below? You see that big gap between the end of the fingerboard and the neck pickup ring? That's because I had a stupid moment and cut the fingerboard to have 21 frets instead of the 22 a LP has..... so it looks like I have to make a new fingerboard. Maybe I can use this one on another project. Needless to say I was quite mad at myself about this mistake!
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