I decided to finish the neck in a nice silky smooth Tru Oil gun stock finish so it got many coats. I treated the fretboard with Lemon Oil.

Ok, back to the neck. Installation of the frets and preparing the nut slot.

I then gave the whole guitar body several coats of sanding sealer and left to fully cure.

As Ash is an open grain wood, I wanted to use grain filler so I could achieve a high gloss finish with lacquer (I used auto clear coat actually). I ap...

Next, a bit of body carving. A belly cut and a knee cut. I used hand tools for this, rasp, files and sandpaper.

To transfer the corresponding screw holes to the neck I put the neck into the body, it was a nice snug fit. I then slowly drove the screws through the...

After some test fitting of the neck and careful placement of the neck plate, I marked the holes for main neck screws. I then drilled them out carefull...

Now it was time to mark everything out onto the top, ready for some routing. Several jigs were used to route out the pickup cavities, control cavity, ...

With the nature of Spalted wood being inconsistent and unpredictable, it has to be stabilised. I did this by applying CA glue (super glue) liberally a...

Time to laminate the Spalted Maple top to the Ash body blank. I just lined up the centre lines after applying the glue and used lots of clamps and wei...

Before laminating the Spalted Maple top to the body blank, I wanted to route some channels for the pickup wiring from the pickup cavities to the contr...

I thought I’d take a break from the neck and start to look at the body woods, I had a beer whilst contemplating.

Time for some fretboard work. I marked out on the fretboard where the fret markers were to be drilled and then drilled them. I also used an off cut fr...

I forgot to mention that I used an extra long drill bit to drill an access hole for the truss rod adjustment in the headstock. After a lot of sanding,...

Time to carve the neck. This was a transferable skill that I learned from dong Mark’s online course “Build your own electric guitar”. I made an adjust...

Time to put the truss rod in, glue a fillet in, plane the excess off when dry and put the fretboard on. This was held in place with clamps and a caul ...

As the design of this neck needs a curved transition from the headstock to the fretboard, I used a spindle sander to achieve that. Common sense told m...

I used a jig and a router with an extended base plate to surface route the front face of the headstock. This is a parallel headstock with the neck (no...

I used my drill press to drill the holes for the tuners in the headstock.

Routed the truss rod slot.