So it has been a long time since I updated this blog. Not long after the last update, I did a test fitting of the bridge. Somehow during the neck template design or sanding, the neck ended up too narrow at the body end.<\/p>\n
I can’t find a bridge out there which has a narrow enough string spacing to make the neck work (the high and low E strings would fall off the neck). After much pondering, the only thing was to build a new neck. <\/p>\n
I also decided to start the body over, as the neck pocked wouldn’t be the right size and it would look like a bodge. <\/p>\n
I still hope to use the body one day for a glued in neck, cutting a new deeper and longer neck area. This may go as far as to be a semi neck-through guitar.<\/p>\n
So I repeated all the steps talked about and build a new body from Ash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So it has been a long time since I updated this blog. Not long after the last update, I did a test fitting of the bridge. Somehow during the neck template design or sanding, the neck ended up too narrow … Continue reading