So I've got a basic Gitty CBG kit sitting in the box and I'm prepping to get going on it. I've cut a lot of 2x4s - plywood - pine - etc but zippo experience with hardwoods or any real fine work. And I look at the quarter sawn oak neck with frets and say --- yep I can do this ... shape it ... remove material for the tuners ... cut a nut slot .... It then occurs to me all I need to do is spend a few bucks at Home Depot and buy a piece of hardwood to practice on - in fact I could rough out a neck. Whew ... I'm good with that approach.
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I did a lot of practicing on a few pieces of pine. Cheap scrap wood. I know it's soft. But it's also easier to damage. I've only made one neck. And that guitar is unplayable. My fault. I will someday rescue the Rusty Rat Box and make it playable again
Yeah $8 for a 1x2 piece of maple is a deal --- I can practice shaping - cutting nut slots - and drilling tuners on the maple before I work on the actual oak neck.