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love doing the necks so far - the soul of the guitar is I the neck as far as I am concerned.
I hope I find the time to make another as I feel that this first one will bear the brunt of a lot of mistakes, so hopefully v2.0 will have less boo-boos!
pete
However ... I *should* have a plank of Idigbo arriving next week, and a plank of Utile and maybe some Alder too.
Popped over to see my neighbour this morning (some of the old buildings on the neighbouring farm have been converted to small business units, and on is a cabinet maker who I've got to know over the past few years) and his main supplier certainly did have Idigbo available a few months ago. If it's still there, then a plank will arrive next week as - coincidentally - he'll be putting an order in for his own stocks of other woods over the weekend! Which happily means I pay for the timber, but not the delivery.
He did explain that Idigbo isn't actually Limba/Korina, although it looks similar. But it's pretty cheap in rough sawn form, so I'll get a plank and try it out ...
What kind of weight is it at the moment?
What size dots have you gone for - 6mm?
Pete.
How did you make the end of the join such a tight fit?
Pete
After cutting the angle, I've got a ~1mm-2mm gap between the top edge of the heel and the end of the neck cavity. The neck is tightly in at the bottom of the pocket, but the angle creates that gap at the top. I'm wondering whether it's worth trying to cut the end of the heel to compensate for the angle and remove the gap at the top. It'll be under a scratchplate and I might well make it worse rather than better!