I like how you capped the heel to match the headstock, interesting.
Plus I really like how you did 22 frets without a fretboard extension. I‘m of the same mind: extend the heel so all frets are over the neck.
Great job!
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Cautionary tale:
When building the prototype Electric Lady Signature model in 2009, I thought how cool to extend neck to accommodate supporting 22nd fret.
I made the mistake of using the standard guides for routing Neck Socket and Neck. Adjusting the termination point for the Neck was peasy-easy , but instead of being 56mm at just past 21st fret, it ended up 56mm at just past 22nd fret - enough difference to irritate me over years of gigging due to lack of string clearance to edge of fretboard.
I'm making a replacement. At long last!
@eddie6string. I know what you mean. My neck pocket will be deep.
@eddie6string. These builds are 25 inch scale lenghts. My neck heel on all my builds portrudes out of the body at 15mm. Relatively tiny. My preference. The neck pockets are deep in joining at the 16th fret mark. Not the standard Fender style specs n joining st all. I suppose the beauty of guitarmaking is you can customize it to your hearts desire. As Mark always says, “The World is your Oyster!” These 2 pinecaster builds will amount to 10 guitar builds since signing up to Mark’s courses in August last year. Wow! Come to think of it, I average 2 builds a month. Unreal! 335 is gonna be next, hardwired in my brain already. Cannot wait.
Truss Rodding always scares me the most. Wonky, too deep, uncentered, tear out. Atleast one of those seems to happen. My nemesis.
Did you know Leo Fender does not play guitar?
That’s true, he didn’t play. He could probably bang out a few notes or whatever just so he could test things. He owned a radio repair shop and musicians would come by to have him fix their amps. The customers would also talk about the limitations with their gear and Leo realized what was missing from the market and he wanted to help these guys out so he decided to do something about that, and then some!
He was always getting local players to test his stuff and even when Fender was up and running and doing well he would still go to gigs to see how his products were doing.
Legend has it that sometimes he would even go up on stage while the band was playing and adjust the amps, totally pissing off the musicians! 😂
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