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Fretboard Geometry: Multiradius Fretboard

1986
AL#8 p.49   BRB1 p.298            
Denny Rauen                                                                                           

▪ Rauen corrects an action problem by changing the fingerboard at a time when most repairmen were correcting the problem in the frets. He uses a multiradius fretboard which is also called a conical fretboard.

Installing the Floyd Rose Tremolo

1986
AL#7 p.53   BRB1 p.260            
Denny Rauen                                                                                           

▪ Rauen’s installation procedure is meant to remove as little wood from the guitar body as possible. This is not a procedure for retrofitting the bridge system to guitars using a stock Fender-style bridge, but for dropping it onto a new body or one with a hardtail bridge.