There a some decent sellers on eBay, though their prices aren’t always massively cheaper than the non-eBay specialists (David Dyke / Timberline).

I’ve bought from feelgoodwood in the past; timber & service have been 10/10.  Sherwin timber are long time advertisers of guitar body/neck blanks too.

@dave - apologies, I should also have said “welcome to the forum”!

And show us what you’ve been building, we all like to see pics of others’ builds!

Hi @dave  welcome to the group. Of the three necks I've made, the first was a plank of mahogany from a friends workshop, the second was maple from @markbailey and the third was laminated from the leftovers of the first two.

Welcome @dave

The folks that @tv101 recommends are the usual goto places and of course here at Mark's shop. You can sometimes stumble across someone local to yourself who might have some good pieces to use. 

Enjoy the ride.

🙏🎸🙂🎶

@dave If you just type in 'tonewood' in google, you'll find  tons of suppliers. I bought wood via Ebay here and there and I am pretty happy with what I got so far. But I prefer to buy from other places like Madinter, Guitarsandwoods, Espen.de and holz-faszination.de or a local wood supplier or two. But I can imagine those options are too expensive, due to import costs 🙁

@koendb thanks, I think I'm probably going to try eBay 1st then if you've done ok with it...

Don't want to waste loads of money buying really expensive wood till I'm sure I can actually build necks with a fair bit of consistency 

@dave The thing is, usually, the more expensive neck blanks are the ones that are also easier to work with, because their reference edge is properly set, the surface is flat, so you don't have to worry about flattening nor squareness of your blanks and you can immediately go about and cut out the trussrod channel, cut out the neck shape, etc..
With cheaper blanks, they are usually still rough sawn and you still have to flatten the surfaces and make them  square to each other, before you can actually start the work on the neck. So unless you are used to use a plane, square and straight edge, I would still opt to pay a bit more for neck blanks and make sure they are already planed, square and flattened.

Wise words @koendb

@koendb I'm fairly competent with a plane as I've jointed a fair few body blanks, 2 an 3 pieces probably spent more time sharpening and setting up the no 7 plane than it took to get the pieces ready to glue up.

So the planing and squaring of blanks doesn't worry me too much, I also have a table saw that's well set up so I can use that to help once I have 1 good flat square side

@tv101 just ha a look at the feel-good wood page/shop on eBay and there's some really nice wood on there going to have a good browse through all the listings and see if I can find neck and fret board blanks for my next project

@dave In that case , go for it 🙂

That's the last build

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just ha a look at the feel-good wood page/shop on eBay and there's some really nice wood on there 

I try not to look too often, because he always has some nice pieces, and I always start planning another build, just to use the nice pieces! 

Whatever I've bought has been good quality and delivered quickly.  He's not the cheapest, but if you wanted cheapest you'd use a couple of pieces of 4x2 😉 

@dave 

Welcome to the forum. It’s true what Mark says on his course that getting wood flat and level is the hardest part, so stick to buying fro people who are makers like Mark or David Dyke

https://luthierssupplies.co.uk

It will save you time in the long run.

@rocknroller912 I've got plenty of time on my hands, spent the last few years learning to build bodies so leveling and squaring stuff up has been a big part of that.

I've built a slab leveling jig so I can flatten body blanks so I reckon I could adapt it to be able to flatten neck blanks. Just finished building a fretboard radius jig (15" because I like a fairly flat fretboard) so fingers crossed I'll b ok whatever the wood is like.

I've ordered some blanks from feelgoodwood. A Sapele mahogany neck blank and a marblewood (Angelim Rajado) fretboard blank..

Welcome Dave, not long joined myself.

My first neck was made from old floorboards, mahogany and maple, still perfect now after a couple of years. Old wood can be good as it tends to have finished doing any moving. Just got to be careful of nails lol

Funnily enough, my most expensive neck blank has needed plenty of work, not all suppliers machine everything before sending out like Mark does.

But, I do like messing with handplanes, gone from zero to 11 or so in a year lol, including a lovely stanley no7.

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My first neck was made from old floorboards, mahogany and maple, still perfect now after a couple of years. Old wood can be good as it tends to have finished doing any moving. Just got to be careful of nails lol

You could use the old nails as frets 😉

@tv101 as long as I avoid putting them through my thickness planer! 🤣