Set #6 Building the necks & finger boards
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:29 pm
Allright, we're starting the necks, I'm making 2 out of Hard Rock Maple and 2 out of Flame Maple, all 4 will have Brazilian Rosewood fingerboards. So far I've planed the maple blocks and Rosewood down to a workable thickness, traced around my patterens with a Sharpe, now we're ready to saw'em out.
Sawing out a '63 Ventures style neck.
Sawing out one of the '62 Maphis style necks.
I've attached a shaping template to back of the neck blank and began pin routing the neck profile.
Free-hand routing the truss rod channel.
Here I'm profiling the fingerboards, first sawing them to shape, then finishing up with the beltsander, gettin' them ready to glue on the necks.
Sawing out a '63 Ventures style neck.
Sawing out one of the '62 Maphis style necks.
I've attached a shaping template to back of the neck blank and began pin routing the neck profile.
Free-hand routing the truss rod channel.
Here I'm profiling the fingerboards, first sawing them to shape, then finishing up with the beltsander, gettin' them ready to glue on the necks.