{"id":521,"date":"2015-03-16T19:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=521"},"modified":"2015-03-16T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:01:02","slug":"day-4-neck-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8211; Neck Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/22-headstockThickness.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the clamps came off:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut headstock to thickness. Aim is 16mm thick, though I suffered a lot of blade wander. After tightening the blade and going very slowly, it&#8217;s 17mm at the top and 18.5mm at nut side. Hopefully I can tidy up with sanding<\/li>\n<li>Rough cut the back of neck to 24-25mm thickness, to speed up shaping. Target is 22mm at the nut and 24mm at the 12th (to copy my favourite neck dimensions from the Axis Super Sport)<\/li>\n<li>Tidy up the fretboard to the side of the neck. Cut close on the bandsaw and sanded to the side (normally I use a template bit on a router, but this time I just used the big sander)<\/li>\n<li>Quick tidy up of the headstock front and back, nothing too precise as it always picks up marks during shaping<\/li>\n<li>Drill side dots &#8211; 2mm bit. I <strong>should<\/strong> of done this before cutting down the back of the neck, instead I forgot. First time using a clamp on this drill press, wasn&#8217;t perfect, however I can see with practice it could be a lot more accurate than my last drill setup. I drilled them in the middle of each fret, height and width wise. I need to get more light sorted out over the drill press, as that was one of the main issues with checking alignment<\/li>\n<li>Glued in white dots, as they provide decent contrast with the rosewood &#8216;board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/23-neckThickness.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/24-sideDots1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/25-sideDots2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/26-sideDots3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the clamps came off: Cut headstock to thickness. Aim is 16mm thick, though I suffered a lot of blade wander. After tightening the blade and going very slowly, it&#8217;s 17mm at the top and 18.5mm at nut side. Hopefully &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}