After slicing off the bulk of the neck blank material to make the fret markers I reduced the thickness of the neck. I opted to using a surform due the grain of the different pieces of wood going in different directions causing tear out with my plane.
Sanding the back flat with the trusty manual belt sander.
Then started shaping the neck taper by shaping the start of headstock ears.
Ready for the neck taper shaping...
That's the neck taper shaped down to the line ready for the headstock to be glued on.
I also put a couple of screws in to where the carbon fibre rods will
go in order to try and prevent slipping whilst being clamped...
...and it didn't work... Oh well, it's not that far out of line and
will only be seen from the back once the headstock facia is fitted.
Headstock ears glued one
Marked out with the same design as my last build
A few hours of playing with a fret saw, files and sandpaper
How it looks with the fingerboard
And using some of the carbon fibre rod off cut I added some to the scarf joint to reinforce the glue joint.
Well it's increasingly guitar shaped now!
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