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Permalink Reply by Dan Vines on May 19, 2016 at 2:29pm

Nice!

Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on May 19, 2016 at 5:37pm

Great job on the neck and the whole build.

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on May 19, 2016 at 11:08pm

nice work,

Permalink Reply by J.D. on September 4, 2016 at 3:09am

That is a nice looking neck you built ,,,and git turned out nice!

Permalink Reply by Tom T on September 4, 2016 at 3:12am

Thanks J D. It is now one of my daily players.

Permalink Reply by J.D. on September 4, 2016 at 3:18am

I bet ,,,Most 6 stringers I come across have the knock off fender ,Gibson style necks "which is totally fine. I've come across some nice ones ,but that's nice seeing a hand made neck fit for 6 strings! Nice work Tom!I'm sure it does ,but got to ask if it holds in tune good?

Permalink Reply by Tom T on September 4, 2016 at 4:37am

Hi JD.

This guitar holds tune  as well as any guitar I have Including a Gretsch Boxcar reso  and a hollow body electric. I did install a truss rod and the neck is hard maple  all the way through. The strings are standard gauge and I rarely have to retune.

Permalink Reply by J.D. on September 4, 2016 at 6:05am

Oh ,you installed a truss rod also ,,,Nicely done! I've been watching/reading up on all the "good neck building" info I can ,but haven't made it as far as installing truss rods. Heck ,I'm still trying to figure out how to get a neck to look and fill like any other guitar neck you would see on a acoustic or what not. Again nice job Tom.

Permalink Reply by Tom T on September 4, 2016 at 7:17am

Dual action truss rods are very inexpensive on ebay. They are a standard 1/4" wide with a rounded bottom side. I picked up a 1/4" round-tipped router bit that works perfectly. After watching a number of YouTubes on installing truss rods,  I build a simple fixture to hold the neck parallel to my router fence and the routing job was pretty simple. This was the second truss rod I had installed and have since done a third neck using the same technique.

As far as shaping the neck to look and feel like a regular guitar, I found some neck shaping templates on line that I printed  and glued to card stock to make shaping jigs for four locations on the neck. That and a good wood rasp and you can get there fairly quickly.