If you are trying to learn guitar repair replacing a fretboard on a beater is one of the least productive things that you will likely not do again that you can spend your time on.
Typical bread and butter things that Luthiers are contracted to do for clients do not include fretboard replacements. I would estimate that for the around 10,000 guitars now that we've worked on (since I've been doing this) we've only replaced one fret board. And that was by choice to remove BRW from an Epiphone New York jazz guitar for a well known touring musician who needed a clearly maple board and bridge when crossing international borders. This was not a valuable instrument making the swap not inappropriate for the instrument.
I understand this is not what you asked but it is what I'm offering. If you want to learn guitar repair the types of things that many of us make our livings doing are not this. Some examples of where much more business seems to be are:
1). Set-ups..... Over half our business has always been set-ups which are a great stalking horse to other things that we can spot and point out.
2). Fret work - as part of a more comprehensive set-up fret dressing and even refrets may be necessary for some instruments.
3). Bridge reglues, bridge plate caps, bridge replacements, bridge crack repair, fitting non-slotted pins.
4). Bone nuts and saddles. You can never spend too much time learning to craft eloquent and functional bone saddles and nuts that fit well.
5). Tuner replacement, servicing (for vintage) and lately ripping the s***** Gibson auto-tuners off and throwing them out the window 
6). Crack repair, gluing, cleating, filling, hiding, rehumidifying etc. brace regluing
7). This should have been number 3 or so, pup installations, swaps, Pot swaps, switch swaps, etc.
8) And lots of other things but not fretboard replacements.
Anyway you can see that replacing a fretboard is not on the list and likely something that many Luthiers may not ever do.
A couple more things I wanted to mention. In response to Woodie that's our experience too with neck resets and fret work. We always dress frets after a reset but refretting is not necessary unless the thing needed a refret before the reset and the two have nothing to do with each other. As such we always charge with a neck reset for a fret dress but not a refret.
Regarding protecting the guitar body from dings and even encasing it in stainless steel this is also not something that we find necessary with all the thousands of guitars that we have worked on damage has been very, very rare. I did drop a Martin counter top low end model as it fell off my bench a few years ago and it hit square on the middle of it's back, bounced 1.5 feet back in the air and I caught it. Close inspection did not uncover even a scratch, no loose braces making me one lucky Hesh.... . This is the only accident I've had knock on BRW.
When I was learning this stuff I once asked the Master Luthier who I studied with "what happens if I scratch the thing" and he replied "great, now you have an opportunity to learn how to fix the scratch..."  
Lastly my world is purely and entirely commercial when it comes to Lutherie now. It's no longer about what's interesting to me or what I want to spend more of my time doing but it is very much about where the market, what actual clients want done is taking us. When remembering back to my days here as one of the most prolific posters ever on this forum I recall the builder influence here that often stressed over things that were and are simply not realistic in a commercial setting.
You will find people here taking on all manner of repairs that in many cases would not be something a commercial shop, unless they had so little business that they could afford to create more liability for themselves.... would ever do.
When we train apprentices they learn to do the kinds of things that folks come to us and ask us to do. But here we will see people sawing off necks on beaters to convert some POS to a bolt on, etc which again is not something that you will ever do in the commercial world.
You will also see an aversion to working on finished instruments which, of course, is my entire world now and I never even give it a thought. An efficient bench set-up without falling tools over the bench is helpful here.
Lastly if and when you go to get a job with an established Luthier or shop, music store, etc no one will be asking you about replacing a fretboard. You will instead be asked to make nut, set-up an instrument, dial in a Floyd, swear at a Rik, cuss out small builders for s***** fret work where half of them are loose (present company excluded of course...  ).
Now what was your original question? Kidding of course.
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