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Is there another way to remove or keep finish off the fretboard extension area on the body of the guitar other than taping off that area?

If you tape off the area, What kind of tape do you like and how far from the fretboard edge do you put back?

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EddieLee

Yes, you can score and route off the lacquer (or use a very sharp chisel). When masking, I use sign maker's tape. It is very thin and low tack. I stay about .050 in from the footprint edge.

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It will probably be alright.

Frisket low tack masking film, matt, set back a little from the outline about 0.75 mm.
It's only 1 thou thick, finish levels over it, but you can still see it, even with silk/matt finishes.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I use frisket film as well and in the same manner as Colin has described.

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George :-)

I use a razor blade as a mini card scraper to remove the finish.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

I just used blue masking tape and set it around a sixteenth in.

What I do....
https://howardguitars.blogspot.com/2015/04/spray-finishing-masking-off-surfaces-i.html

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Brian

You never know what you are capable of until you actually try.

https://www.howardguitarsdelaware.com/

I'm with Haans. Blue masking tape about 1/16" in... Easy-peasy, nothing special...

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

My fretboard extensions are bolt-on so no need to mask...

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