

Last seen: May 21, 2025
I had a pop at the other neck today. I’ve blended the nut area into the headstock and rounded all the corners over with various grades of sandpaper. T...
@roddy Good for you, glad you enjoyed your visit. Welcome to the forum and I look forward to seeing pictures of your design drawing and maybe of the b...
I’ve had a couple of days off from guitar making to move some more stuff out of the house but I couldn’t resist carving the nut area into the headstoc...
I’ve yet to carve them but I couldn’t resist offering them up to have a look how they might look. I like it so far.
I’ve still got a long way to go but these necks are starting to look good with their respective bodies. I’m going to use all gold hardware on both of ...
@petejb Sounds like good advice to me. Thanks for the moral support. 👍
All glued, pinned and clamped. I’ll come back to this tomorrow.
Time to get the fretboard on. I always lightly clamp it in place first and make sure everything lines up and is in the right place. Then put my caul o...
Planed the fillet and a bit of scraping too. It’s very satisfying doing this bit.
Time to unclamp and plane this truss rod fillet down so I can glue this amazing fretboard on. This neck is going to look stunning.
@bpower That looks great, nice and clean. You and your daughter have done good.
@bpower It’s all part of it, you have to just suck it up sometimes and put it all down to experience. I think we have all had times like these, where ...
@abbbbbotttt I think the best thing would be to email. 👍
I used an offcut from the fretboard to make a fillet to cover the truss rod. Waste not, want not.
Time to make a fretboard for the panga neck. I’m going to use this lovely piece of pale moon ebony, again using the Bagpress Fret Slotting Jig.
They are both looking good together.
Time to drill the panga and route the headstock to depth.
@petejb Oh wow! I never learned any of this stuff but I’m really glad you have mentioned it. I didn’t do that well in school, my attention was all ove...
@russ I have always been a guitarist and always will be. 😂
@russ Well, it could be but it’s going on a righty as a reverse headstock. It’s going on the purple and gold swirly body as my tribute to Jimi. I know...