Headstock slope - Build Your Own Bolt on Electric

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Anonymous 49790 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:20:44 +0000

Thank you for sharing your ideas. Here I have learned a lot of things from this post and appreciate your innovative thinking.

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Clinton — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:24:09 +0000

@frank1985 leave it as it is looks good and ready to be carved

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POCORANCH7 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 22:56:58 +0000

@bpower, @koendb, @markbailey, @koendb

"I was just a little nervous about chasing a flaw that really didn't matter too much in the big picture..." as bpower said...

my sentiments, exactly...i'm going to carefully sand it away,,,feather it in - call it good...by hand, not with a router as I'm still getting reacquainted with that power tool; it makes sawdust - like RIGHT NOW!

thanks for the advice ya'll

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POCORANCH7 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 02:20:55 +0000

thanks for the feedback...appreciated Poco7 ( o)===:::

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Koendb — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:55:16 +0000

@poco7 I would opt to cleanup the surface , including the location for the nut , since it looks like it is also affected? Then you could go for a headstock plate ( veneer ) all the way to the fretboard. Or just make your fretboard a little longer to also include the nut ( create a little lip for the nut to be seated on , if that makes sense)

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POCORANCH7 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:40:09 +0000

asking for help here...your neck headstock looks great...rounded;

I've kinda messed up my first attempt at surface routering with my headstock jig; I'm sure it's from inexperience and needing to watch Mark's video just once more, lol...i'll submit a couple of pictures and welcome advice;

I now have about a 3-4mm lip - unwanted lip at the back edge of where the nut will snug up to the peghead...I'm sure I'll just have to feather it out somehow...sanding itrounded and make it asthetically look ok, just hoping i haven't taken it too far and have to "plane down the entire neck to match it,,,seems minimal, but want other experienced opinions here please...

I've not placed the fretboard yet, or even finished cutting out the neck layout - i've just now came into contact with a friend to help with a bandsaw...we had a vacation out-of-state and a Covid scare with a hospital stay, so I'm just now getting back to my guitar build. I think this is pretty fixble, it's only about 5mm on one side and 3mm on the other with barely a mm in the "hump in the center...my router must be dipping at the sides - user error...thanks ya'll

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Anonymous 33640 — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:16:00 +0000

Looking too good and excellent work..

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Tej — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:50:54 +0000

@frank1985 also if you really wanted to you could put a laminate on top of the headstock to get the thickness back to what you planned.

🙂 (edit) just noticed how old this question was 😬

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Boo — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:31:34 +0000

@frank1985 Excellent, well done. 👍

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frank1985 — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:48:20 +0000

I managed to level it out nicely with the router...I’m a lot happier with it now :) Lesson learnt for next time...