{"id":666,"date":"2016-07-30T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=666"},"modified":"2016-07-30T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T21:47:29","slug":"neck-pocket-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Neck pocket &#8211; July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/86-neckpocket3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the bridge and pickups can be located, the next step is to cut the neck pocket. The bridge has a range of 10 &#8211; 15mm for string height, so I&#8217;ve gone for a depth of neck pocket to leave the neck 9mm above the top *before* it&#8217;s radiused.<\/p>\n<p>The neck pocket wasn&#8217;t as good as the previous one, there is a little bit of play in the neck but nothing significant. First it was cut into the 6mm MDF, then copied into 12mm (on a wide piece to make it easy to clamp). Again I almost ran out of depth on the router, but it just made it. Finally, I used a chisel to square up the edges of the neck pocket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/82-necktemplate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/83-necktemplate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/84-neckpocket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/85-neckpocket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the bridge and pickups can be located, the next step is to cut the neck pocket. The bridge has a range of 10 &#8211; 15mm for string height, so I&#8217;ve gone for a depth of neck pocket to leave &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=666\">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-666","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\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}