Why is it so uncommon to see electric basses with flat fretboards?
I am interested in this as I build my first bass and it took me the whole summer, so any ways to make the handbuilding process simpler, faster and still reliable. Classical guitars have flat fretboards for ages and no one seems to be complaining too much about it, so avoiding to waste those hours rounding the fretboard seems to be a good idea in a homemade production point of view.
What do you think?
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The closer the curve of a fretboard is to the curve of your hand, the easier playing will be, but a flatter fretboard should allow a player to play faster and perform better bends.
To answer your question, most people benefit from the ease of playability from a radius, even if only a slight radius, so most companies build rounded fretboards, but from what I've seen flat, or flat-ish, fretboards aren't really THAT uncommon.
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