So day 12 its time to bite the bullet and cut the neck into sections so I can laminate it together and then shape and carve it properly. I am a bit nervous but it has to be done so here goes. The gluing cannot all be done at once so its actually day 12 to 15.
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| Cutting neck blank into sections |
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| Cutting neck blank into sections |
Well thats it neck blank cut into the correct lengths ready for laminating.
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| neck blank cut into sections ready for laminating |
Note where I have marked the front of the neck blank prior to cutting so that once it is laminated the grain is all in the same orientation.
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| Close up of neck section prior to laminating |
Prior to the next step I looked at the sections and wasnt particularly happy with the mating surfaces I tried to remedy this by planing / scraping and sanding but all I actually acheived was reducing the section of the mahoganysections and didnt improve the mating surfaces at all - it would have been better if I had left well alone and carried on without trying to sort out this problem.
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| First section glued |
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| Another shot of the first glued section |
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| Completed laminated tailstock |
Now all thats left to do is mark out the neck blank prior to cutting.
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| Tailstock marked out |
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| Headstock marked out |
While I was doing all this I had quite a bit of time on my hands so I made the stop blocks for the guitar mould by drilling a series of 12 mm holes in an 18 mm x 18 mm length of timber cut them into 28 mm lengths.
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| Series of holes drilled in 18 mm x 18 mm timber. |
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| Drilling holes with guide made earlier |
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| Finished the stop blocks. |
Thats the end of day 15- the whole process above actually took another 5 hours total thats 79 hours total on the project so far.
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