Lifted fretboard repair

mrleon83

hi all so yesterday I managed to score a Seagull S6 acoustic for ridiculous price, it’d been stored in a caravan for sometime and the fretboard has lifted between the 1st-6th fret, I’ve bought some titebond to get on with the repair - any pointers on how best to go about this?

my idea was to put some glue on the sides, then either if I can get hold of vice clamp it together other wise find some other way of securing it , imalso going to reattach the nit which from my research I can use super glue ...

WezV

i would be tempted to remove fully,clean up both surfaces and reglue.

mrleon83

WezV said:

i would be tempted to remove fully,clean up both surfaces and reglue.

Yeah , I can definitely see the benefit of that, just concerned on my skills .. 

WezV

does it push together okay?   Is so, and you are wanting to keep it cheap, i would inject some titebond, clamp up  and call it a day.   just be aware if it does fail again, you will need to get the board off fully  to reglue it

mrleon83

Yeah I can push it together no problem, I’ll try that in the first instance , I take it that if I need to remove it further down the line I can use the iron trick I’ve seen around? 

WezV

yeah, normally works well.  If its already failing due to heat it should work fine

mrleon83

Thanks for the advice @WezV !