I find this extremely helpful as I have never done this before and I have an old blonde guitar that I want to sand down and change to a cherry stain. This helped me a lot. Thank you.
This is exactly what ive been looking for!! I'm wanting to get into making solid full body guitars as art, not functional guitars, and doing the neck was the only thing i hadnt figured out yet. Thank you so much, and I'm definitely subscribing for any other tricks i might need.
Gibson also uses a huge truss nut cavity further weakening it; and the headstock angle is 17deg. Epiphone (played by more kids and abused more often than Gibson instruments yet have lower % of production headstock breakage) uses a 12deg angle, small truss rod adjustment hole, and scarf joint. PRS uses 9deg headstocks with a smaller headstock paddle (smaller target) on their one-piece neck Core models while S2 and SE get scarf joints. A Fender style neck build option is using staggered tuner posts instead of string trees. Famously Led Zeppelin and Hendrix studio recorded with Telecasters because their high angle and tuner splaying Gibson headstock guitars constantly played out of tune.
So a scarf joint is stronger that carving the headstock out of a multi laminate neck through? Perhaps with a headstock veneer. I prefer the laminated pieces being visible in the headstock.
I'm thinking of angling the headstock on a Telecaster for access to the adjustment nut on a Hot Rod two-way truss rod. Seems like the only solution other than just lowering the head, and I'm not crazy about that idea either.
Guys , I like this guy but be aware that RIT has SALT in it . The salt will turn your hard ware to rust and I can tell you that depending on what finish your using the salt and dye will bleed out. It happened to me with poly acrylic and urethane finish
Excellent vid. I recently started buying cheap necks for my partscasters and leveling, crowning, and dressing the frets with great results. Excellent way to save big money
I don't know if this was true when the video was uploaded but what I've noticed recently is kit necks trying to pass off engineered wood fingerboards as something else. It's most likely due to the increasing scarcity of rosewood and the cost of its alternatives. I have no problem with playing on a man-made blended material made to look like a dark grain. Just don't tell me it's ebony and expect me to be gullible enough to believe it.
It is fine if you just want something do or keep you busy , but I cannot buy wood and route a body, when I can buy the body for less than $30 shipped to my door, and this is a mahogany body
When you said "Pine caster", I smiled big time :). I had some boards laying around and figured I'd mess those up instead of some crazy exotic wood on the first few guitars. I love exotic woods, but not being afraid of messing up and just going ham for $20 is also fun. I've found from just a few hours of messing around, you learn a lot from trying to make the wood straight (that's what she said). God Bless You Brother, thank you for the Tips, and documentary!
I like how you used the separate pieces of wood to demonstrate how it's done. I think i'll practice with a few planks myself before i try my first paint job. I'm really wanting to do a ghost burst. Something that that starts as a soft, ghostly white and gradually fades to black at the edges. By the way. I really don't want the grain to show through. Is it ok if i apply a primer first?
My biggest mistake in making a fan fret board was marking the scales down the edge of the blank, so when the excess was cut away it totally screwed up the slots, apart from the neutral fret, the rest were a mess. Ive since learned from that episode. Thanks for posting.
