I posted all my math long ago on the old MIMF... my conclusion is that you can have a fretboard that's a true regular conical section (albeit varying thickness) or the so called "compound" radius fretboard which I conjectured to be the sectin of a slanted, or elliptical cone. Or you can just start with a cylindrical section and true the string paths. Even an untrued 12" radius cylindrical fretboard has a max error of about .015" which is easily trued.
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