Fixing the fingerboard

The fingerboard should be a little hollow to allow the strings to vibrate freely. Although I had made the fingerboard initially straight it has lived and was actually convex. In order to fix the fingerboard, I removed the upper nut and with a block plane set for very fine shavings I planed the fingerboard to be ~1 mm hollow in the middle. The photos below show the fingerboard before and after. I was worried that I would ruin something but this went pretty nicely. To finish off the fingerboard, I also sanded the fingerboard to be silky smooth and oiled it with fingerboard oil. In the end I still glued the nut back on its place.