I trimmed one side with a jigsaw, then planed it down. This we so I could keep the channel on the other side parallel with the side of the fretboard.
This is the holes for the LEDs, all the points were centre marked on the paper
Some of the LED wiring channels routed using the trusty old Dremel
extra resistor channels added and sorted positive wire. I wanted to keep some insulation so I cut lots of small bits at decreasing sizes. Not sure if it will melt when I get stuck in with all the soldering!
Slightly dead now (as can be seen!) due to an accident, but this was a mock-up to check my LED lighting up thing. It worked - provisionally. I have swapped the orientation of the resistors to run parallel to the frets as there won't really be room for them at the upper ones this way
I am going to fret the fretboard before attaching it to the neck. Not ideal, but I need to know that everything is still working at every stage, and I'm not happy with the thought of all that hammering about when all is irretrievably stuck together. I'm still not sure if I can pull this off but I like a challenge.
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