Then got on with a bit of carving and a bit more I created a little template out of aeroply to carve out the cheeks. Just flip it over to cr...

Next, I drew out the shape of the heel of the neck. 🙏🎸🎶🙂

Next, I marked out the velute.... ...and roughly carved out the shape 🙂🎶🎸🙏

Next, I roughly cut out the neck and headstock shape. I kept a couple of little wings on the sides of the neck to allow it to be more easily clamped i...

Then I drew out the headstock shape using a template. This headstock is 163mm long. The peg holes are 12mm in from the edge. The first is 43mm from th...

Next I marked out the dovetail onto the heel end of the neck. 🎸🙏🙂🎶

Plane down the edges of the veneer flush with the headstock and cut the edge of it straight against the front edge of the nut line. 🎶🙂🙏🎸

Then I glued the veneer onto the headstock. Clamp it down, applying pressure evenly across the headstock. 🎸🙏🙂🎶

Next, I prepared the headstock veneer. Planed and scraped it smooth to a thickness of 2mm.

Next, I routed out the truss rod channel. The access for this one is at the headstock end. The channel is routed to a depth of 12mm. 🎶🙂🙏🎸

Cheers @clinton. Much appreciated. 🙏🙂🎶🎸

Next, glue the 4 pieces together to form the heel then glue the heel to the neck 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Once the glue has set the headstock can be planed flat to the 14mm thickness. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

Once the two pieces are planed flat and square they can be glued together as shown in the pictures. The thickness of the join between the headstock pi...

Place the two pieces of the neck into the vice as shown in this picture and plane the joint flat and square and keeping the angle of the scarf joint. ...

Measure 90mm from the Nut towards the end of the headstock and mark the position of the scarf joint. I cut it using a scarf joint jig on the bandsaw. ...

I started by squaring up the neck blank. Planing one of the faces flat and smooth then squaring up both of the edges. I kept the blank wider than the ...

@nolanrathkegmail-com You certainly can use it for fretboards. I've seen it used a couple of times. You might be lucky enough to not need to fill in...

@dhawkes1gmail-com I agree with robin, Dan. Just mark a new centre line on the fretboard and bring the sides in evenly to match your neck profile......