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Permalink Reply by Don Craig on August 5, 2017 at 5:09am

I think he slotted the neck so that the soundboard lid slides in like a tongue.  Then dropped it into the box frame.  The outside screw would fasten the bottom lid to the frame; the inside screw to the interior neck piece. I would have also used glue.

Permalink Reply by Bill McNamara on August 5, 2017 at 5:22am

Is that a good way to do it? Or does it put a lot of presure on the soundboard?

Permalink Reply by Don Craig on August 5, 2017 at 5:29am

He may have done what I do and that's extend the neck inside all the way to the back frame piece, where it's glued and fastened.  That puts most pressure on the frame.  If the neck seems solidly connected, he probably did something like that.

Permalink Reply by Gus K on August 5, 2017 at 6:53am

I see no reason for gluing the neck.  I screw mine from the top with countersunk drywall screws. The neck goes all the way through to the back and is firmly fastened  by the tailpiece screws.  Screw #3 goes into a scrap of wood that extends to the bottom, it has been glued in.  I also like to use these corner braces, which again screws into a glued scrap.  I's very solid and can be opened for any maintenance. 

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Permalink Reply by Don Craig on August 5, 2017 at 6:59am

Beautiful work Gus.  As far as glues or screws, to each his own.

Permalink Reply by Gus K on August 5, 2017 at 8:09am

Thx, I already had to open it up once. :)

Permalink Reply by Bill McNamara on August 5, 2017 at 7:00am

Are you cutting out a piece of the neck so it fits in the box? Or just the notch to fit it on the cover?

LOL.. I just should have stuck to building computers.

Permalink Reply by Gus K on August 5, 2017 at 8:28am

Yes.  In my case I first notched the neck so it sits flush with the top (just a couple of hairs higher).  Then I added a fretboard with some overhang..  For yours it looks like he actually had to cut a notch into the one piece neck.

Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on August 5, 2017 at 9:45am

Hi Bill.  Here's how I did one of mine.  I added blocks to the back of the neck to attach to the back with screws and screwed the lid of the box to the neck to keep it closed.  Easy to open if you need to and keeps it simple.

Permalink Reply by Brian Revels on August 5, 2017 at 12:50pm

I like that headstock Duck...Looks like a nice build overall too. 

Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on August 5, 2017 at 1:03pm

Thanks Brian, It was done as a "beater" that I could just throw in the back seat when we went places.  It's a Partagas "Gigante" box (fiberboard), the neck is a cheap white pine 1x2 with an Oak fingerboard, fretless and done with some leftover stain I had laying around the shop. I have a double piezo pickup in the bridge and it sounds good acoustically or amplified.  The volume knob was made from a Nesquick chocolate milk bottle cap.