Neck making 2

This week, I finished back plate install, and neck joint routing. I made a routing jib for uniform quality for the mortise joint. Additional processes for the neck making are finger board install and truss rods install. So, next week these necks are pretty much done.

Neck thickmess sanding

I did neck head thickness sanding using a drill press. Finalized thickness would be 14.5mm. At this moment, the head thickness is 13.5mm. I will add an 1mm back plate. Back plate material is Maccaser Ebony. Before applying the back plate, the neck head back is needed to make a clean surfacing with nice sloping for the neck volute.

Neck making

I had a remodeling project in my home. My place has been quite messy for three weeks, and almost impossible to make any progress for guitar making. Now, I back to normal.  I did truss rod channel making, head plate surface planing, and head plate gluing. Head plate material is African black-wood. As I mentioned previously, I will use the mortise joint technique for those three guitars. Therefore, I will install truss rods after joint the neck to the body. I will have back plate surfacing, back plate gluing, neck rough shape, neck install, truss rod install, and then final neck shaping.