Guitar Necks etc

Here is the fruit of 2 weeks of practice! The neck is fitting pretty well. It just needs a few adjustments after the carving is complete.

















This is a pretty good neck to body fit. As you can see the neck joint needs to come down about 1/8 of an inch. What you can't see is that the neck need to be tilted back just a little to make sure the action is correct. That means sanding just a little from the bottom of the joint and making the sides fit again.













After these pictures were taken I took the neck over to the 4" air filled drum sander and began to "carve" the neck. This is the first time that I have used this tool. It came as an extra on the Delta surface sander. The heel came out really well as did the carving on the peg head end of the fret board. I also glued some mahogany over the truss rod. Still have some carving to do between the heel and the peg head. After that is complete I can start on the fretboard ... again new territory so it will probably take a while. Greg came by last weekend and gave me a good ebony fret board. It needs to have the fret slots cut and the radius sanded into it.

Things are slow on the farm. Several families are on vacation. I am really excited to see Bill and Annie get back. They picked up a big RV on their way to Michigan. Now we need to work on them to become bluegrass fans and attend local festivals. And I think Smith and Teressa will be back soon. We need to get Olivia (13 months old) down to the garden to pick beans. She would go down earlier in the spring and pick a radish and munch on it - dirt and all.