Here is where I'm at with the actual physical implementation of my headstock design in wood. It's composed of 6 layers of trim wood ("slats") laminated together with white carpenter's glue. Two of the slats are of a (unknown) dark wood to give it more visual appeal. Rather than cutting out the slot, I glued the wood up with a 4.5" gap in the middle 2 slats. Have done this trick before and it makes slotted headstock construction a lot easier, and it works well, too. The curved cut-away was done by a series of perpendicular cuts about 1/4" apart with a handsaw and then a chisel to pry and coax out the small rectangular pieces of wood. Then a wood rasp, a wood file and sand paper to finish shaping the headstock.
Read more…
Comments
Very nice work on that, gonna be great!