my ripper has been sitting for years, unplayable. I have ALMOST everything to put it back together... pickups and electronics, bridge, tuners, misc hardware. what I don't have is a fretboard. and I don't have the skill, experience, or tools to make a new one. Since its a set neck, finding a donor neck is not going to work. Unless its possible to cut a set neck off and route out a pocket for a bolt on, but even if that is possible, I don't see it working on the ripper as thin as the body is. The reason the board is shot, is because a LONG time ago, I defretted it, and then wound up not liking fretless, so, in my stupidity, I tried to re-fret it, and that didn't go well at all. I've since steamed the old board off the neck.
Should I try to steam a fretboard of another neck to put on there? I'm on a super low budget, so sending it to a luthier is not an option. I have a shot at picking up a "new" epi-bird neck. The guy pulled it off of a brand new bird last spring, been sitting in his closet ever since. He said its got a bow in it now. He doesn't want much for it at all, What do you guys think of using it just for the fret board?
