The Harvester 3-string cigar box guitarMahogany neck with mahogany peg head and sapele wings; vintage yardstick fret board with gold fret wire and clay side dots; bone nut and saddle; floating bridge; dual 20mm piezo discs embedded in the neck below bridge; volume pot & 1/4 " instrument jack ; reclaimed tuners. 23" fret scale. Tuned G#-B-E (E) ...for now.
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Because the necks on these yardstick builds are so narrow, it doesn't take much time to shape them, just with the shoeshine method I mentioned, or even with a palm sander. Although I tend to get kind of aggressive with the palm sander & I've had to buy 3 new Makita hook& loop pads over the past 6 months.
Mine are actually pretty simple too. I don't even use a router on them. I round them by clamping them to a bench and -using an old strip of 80g paper from the belt sander( ripped to about 2" wide) - just go at it like a shoeshine boy. A spokeshave is in my future, tho.
How do you shape your necks? Right now I use a 1/2" roundover for the 1x2 but they end up being a little thick when I attach a 1/4" fretboard. Still haven't mastered the back-of-the-headstock to neck joint like this one. Mine are very simple.
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Nice work on that neck & headstock.
Because the necks on these yardstick builds are so narrow, it doesn't take much time to shape them, just with the shoeshine method I mentioned, or even with a palm sander. Although I tend to get kind of aggressive with the palm sander & I've had to buy 3 new Makita hook& loop pads over the past 6 months.
I need a spokeshave... thanks!
Mine are actually pretty simple too. I don't even use a router on them. I round them by clamping them to a bench and -using an old strip of 80g paper from the belt sander( ripped to about 2" wide) - just go at it like a shoeshine boy. A spokeshave is in my future, tho.
How do you shape your necks? Right now I use a 1/2" roundover for the 1x2 but they end up being a little thick when I attach a 1/4" fretboard. Still haven't mastered the back-of-the-headstock to neck joint like this one. Mine are very simple.
Thanks Craig. I'm hunting for some mis-matched vintage tuners for this one.
your headstocks are things of beauty