{"id":208,"date":"2012-03-31T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-03-31T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T16:07:14","slug":"neck-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Neck &#8211; March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar2\/20-NeckTemplate.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to pause on the body at this point and start on the neck. The neck template was made in the same way as the last neck. The 4+2 headstock was chosen to keep the guitar dimensions more compact.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The centre line is marked<\/li>\n<li> Nut line is marked, at the desired width (41.8mm in this case to match my Axis Super Sport)<\/li>\n<li> The end point is marked, at the desired width<\/li>\n<li> These lines are joined with a stright edge<\/li>\n<li> A print out of the headstock shape is cutout and traced onto 6mm MDF<\/li>\n<li> Route the neck using straigh edges as guides. The headstock is cut close to line on a bandsaw and sanded to line<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The headstock is a very tight fit for the tuners (as it&#8217;s been downscaled to keep proportions with the body). I&#8217;ve had to space to tuners slightly wider to allow the tuners to fit. For this project I&#8217;m using Schaller Nylons to keep the weight down, as the last guitar was headstock heavy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to pause on the body at this point and start on the neck. The neck template was made in the same way as the last neck. The 4+2 headstock was chosen to keep the guitar dimensions more compact. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}