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  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates February 15, 2011 at 10:17pm
    Right. That's what I do. So I do a laminated neck where I take two pieces of 1x2 and glue them together, add on some extra for the heel and cut it lateral to shape. Like here

    http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/laminated-neck-test

    -WY
  • paul February 15, 2011 at 8:21pm

    are your heel and neck made from the same piece of wood?

    what about glueing a piece in for the heel? any suggestions?



    Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates said:

    See my album here

    https://picasaweb.google.com/gmac63/DavidWaits?authkey=Gv1sRgCLT-sY...

    I use a set of sharp wood chisels to rough out the shape the heel, rasps and sandpaper to fine tune.

    -WY
  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates February 15, 2011 at 8:06pm
    See my album here

    https://picasaweb.google.com/gmac63/DavidWaits?authkey=Gv1sRgCLT-sY...

    I use a set of sharp wood chisels to rough out the shape the heel, rasps and sandpaper to fine tune.

    -WY
  • Mark Werner February 15, 2011 at 11:12am

    Glue it up... shape with rasps and files...

     

    That's one way, anyway.  Just glue up sections of the same wood using a quality wood glue and when it's dry start shaping.  I use hand tools, but power sanding tools would be lots quicker.

    Another method is to cut out the entire neck shape in one piece from a blank.  I've use glued-up laminates of maple and oak, then laid out the neck shape (side view) on same and cut the whole thing out with a scroll saw.

    "Ears" for the tuning head are glued on later.

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