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DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
edited April 2020 in Making & Modding tFB Trader
I've been meaning to get around to this for a while, I'm a short scale person and like Gibson necks and set necks, I also like some fender bits, mostly for the clean tones

Plan is LP alder body flame maple neck, tele bridge and mojo slightly hotter bridge then a staple p90

Here's a mock up of what I'm after


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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    First thing to do route a body to shape, usual stuff bandsaw close and finish on the overhead router then robbo sand, it all went ok 


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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    I then moved onto the neck, first thing square up a great chunk of quatersawn flame maple, it's a good workout then bandsaw the headstock angle which I reduced to around 13 degrees to keep more strength in it then I  routed the traditional truss rod channel

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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Traditional rod was made then installed and filler strip glued in, hand planned flat and we have a mock up with a zirocote fretboard


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  • paulnb57paulnb57 Frets: 3044
    Nice!
    Stranger from another planet welcome to our hole - Just strap on your guitar and we'll play some rock 'n' roll

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  • PeteCPeteC Frets: 409
    really like the idea of this...watching with interest.
    Do you true up your neck blanks with a handplane ? Getting tired of reading all the US posts where everyone seems to have a full basement workshop with jointers, planers, huge bandsaws, etc etc and no-one actually seems to hand work anything ! 

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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    PeteC said:
    really like the idea of this...watching with interest.
    Do you true up your neck blanks with a handplane ? Getting tired of reading all the US posts where everyone seems to have a full basement workshop with jointers, planers, huge bandsaws, etc etc and no-one actually seems to hand work anything ! 

    I have a surface planer that's not great, it does one job and that's to take the rough sawn bits off, I then true up the blank by hand, all the power tools do is speed parts of a build up, my most used power tools are a sander thicknesser and my overhead router, most of my work is by hand 

    As long as your tools are sharp it makes things easier

    One thing I didn't show was the neck blank was big enough for 2 necks so I do headstock angles top and bottom then truss rod channels, it's much easier for me like this
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  • CorvusCorvus Frets: 2924
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    Very nice Darren, nicely different combo with the staple too.
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Corvus said:
    Very nice Darren, nicely different combo with the staple too.
    Thanks Bill, it's that staple I'm dying to fire up, I'll be using his proper replica one for a full custom build when I get time 
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  • Looking nice.  Very neat trussrod access - what did you use to cut that?
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Looking nice.  Very neat trussrod access - what did you use to cut that?
    I use a spot facer 3/4 inch with a 3/16 pilot, I do them by hand but add a small shim in the truss rod channel so it only goes as deep as needed no more, it adds more strength imo
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    I make my fretboards slightly different to most, I flat the board, taper it, radius it then slot it, I do dots after too, I got fed up with going back over fret slots and I like them just deep enough over the radius
    You'll see my 12 inch radius jig, it's built like a tank and works extremely well





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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Mortice cutting on the overhead router, I'm using a LP long tenon because I want to alter the cutaway to open it out a bit plus I don't like losing a side wall when it's glued in, it's better from my finishing point of view


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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Next up thickness a neck and trim it down near fretboard width, it's easier to fit the tenon like this, I use the overhead router to get the tenon down to virtually done, this leaves me to use a hand scraper to fit the tenon properly then it's the shoulders, I use a flush cut saw to cut the shoulders a smidge over what I want then use a chisel to square up and fit the shoulders, I have to take some off the back of the tenon so it doesn't stop the tenon going in

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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    This is how I get the tenon to size leaving a bit of work to do, it's still not that quick but the result is a perfect joint


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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Here's the tenon fitted, I'll trim the rest of the  neck up later


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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Headstock shaped on the router

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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Mock up

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  • Keep up the good work @Danielsguitars - I'm really.enjoying this thread!
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    Oh forgot to show the lovely zirocote fretboard

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