Neck Making 2

Neck material I picked has perfect quarter sawn grain. I wanted to maximize usage of this super rare material. V-joint is the best method to minimize waste from neck making. The most wasteful method is one piece neck for heck head, body, and heal. Probably, 50% of material will be disposed if I use the one piece neck. Also, one piece neck requires a large log to yield one piece neck. However, a large Mahogany log is not able to remove moisture properly due to the size (simply too large to remove water inside). So, I selected the V-joint technique. V-joint technique is a classic technique and you may find this joint for Lute's neck. Martin's old guitars have been using real V-joint, and latest D-28 and above models have V-joint like Volute. However, those volutes are only cosmetically added and there is no functionality. You may see my head joint below. After joint the neck head, the V-section is able to make Martin like volute. However, this volute is functionally make sense. V-joint requires a lot of time to align; however, this join saves a lot of material, and also is able to make a beautiful volute.