This is the beginning of the neck for my 4th build. I'm trying to be a little more advanced on this one, so I'm going with a scarf joint neck. Also going to add a separate finger board with real frets. I did make a mistake....I planned to thin the head down before glueing up this joint. Now I gotta do it the hard way. Helpful hints are more than welcome on this.
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I use my bandsaw for shaping the headstock. It's not a big one and it is about as tough a job as my saw will handle but it works. Otherwise I've done it with my little hand saw (a 10$ Irvin). Then I use my belt sander to take the saw marks out and this usually makes some curved areas by the nut and junction of neck and head. These look good....
If you gotta router that's certainly one easy way, even do some kinda feature like and ogee bit or whatever. Otherwise a jointer would make quick work of it.
Failing that a sled for the table saw or bandsaw and sharpen up a plane to clean up. Or if ur in a hurry put yer cowboy hat on and hit the belt sander
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I use my bandsaw for shaping the headstock. It's not a big one and it is about as tough a job as my saw will handle but it works. Otherwise I've done it with my little hand saw (a 10$ Irvin). Then I use my belt sander to take the saw marks out and this usually makes some curved areas by the nut and junction of neck and head. These look good....
If the sides are square could you use a miter or band saw and slice off a piece of the headstock's face?
Failing that a sled for the table saw or bandsaw and sharpen up a plane to clean up. Or if ur in a hurry put yer cowboy hat on and hit the belt sander
If you use acoustic guitar tuners, you don't have to thin the headstock. Here's an example from legnahkra: