Lots of progress over the bank holiday weekend
- Remeber to measure and not just guess how deep to drill the tuner holes! Got it wrong, but wasn’t too bad to redrill after the headstock was cut to thickness.
- The fretboard has been glued on. This time I used two pins (hammered into the neck and the head cut off) to help located the fretboard in the correct place. Last time I found the glue made it very hard to clamp the fretboard without it shifting.
- The fretboard was cut to size using a template bit on the router, then side dots holes were drilled and inserted. I went for white dots this time, as the black dots on the previous guitar are too hard to see.
- I decided to fit the fretboard before cutting the headstock to thickness, which worked a lot better. Having a bandsaw helps a lot!
- Fretboard was radiused using a 10″ sanding block and sticky backed sand paper. Final sandering will be done once the neck carve is done
At this point it starts looking like a neck. Using a carving file which I just bought, I’ve done the rough shaping of the neck join. Still very rough, but as I found with spokeshave, it takes time to get used to any tool. I’ve done a first pass on the neck carve as a whole, though it’s not very even at the moment.
