A Guitar Is Born!
Routing the truss rod channel
I didn't take some photos of the neck headstock being glued and the veneer being glued onto the headstock face (I forgot to take them). But here the channel for the neck rod is routed. This will have a "Hot Rod" bi-directionally adjustable neck-rod.
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Shaping headstock/Drilling Tuning Machine Holes
The headstock has been shaped and sanded and the tuning machine holes have been drilled.
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Neck Carving
The back of the neck has been carved using files, spokeshaves, surforms, scrapers and sandpaper. It's a LOT of work but it's really satisfying. I love feeling the neck come to live from a block of wood. Someone's hand will brush over this neck thousand's of times during the life of the guitar!!
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Gluing on the fingerboard
The fingerboard has already been shaped and fret slots cut into it. Here it's getting glued to the face of the neck (and the truss rod of course is fixed in its channel).
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