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This is a picture of the neck blank I started with. |
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Several hours later (after time with the table saw, band
saw, Dremel, chisels, X-acto knives, Bandaids), here's how it looks. |
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Mistake #1 (of
many to come, I'm sure!) While opening the truss rod pocket
'just a little more', I ground all the way through the
peghead. Ouch! Now I have to make a new neck! |
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And here is neck #2. This time I used one of
Cumberland Acoustic's
dual action truss rods. It's much easier to work with! |
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I built a jig to hold the peghead at the proper angle for
shaping, and here's the result. |
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Using my Dremel and my <ahem> keen eyesight, I began
routing the channel for the peghead binding. |
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and here's the peghead, with all the binding glued in.
It still needs to be scraped & sanded. Next step -
inlay! I ordered a pre-cut MOP name (Harlan) and fern inlay from
FQMS. That's about the only parts I decided not to do
myself. |
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This shows the peghead with the binding finished and
scraped. I have also got the fern inlay routed and glued. I'm
waiting on my Harlan
to arrive so I can finish this part. |
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Here's the finished peghead, with all the inlay done and
filled. I'm very pleased with the results. |
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My fingerboard was cut it from a StewMac blank. I
installed the binding, and set the mother-of-pearl dots. It just
needs a final sanding to level the dots to the fretboard, and then
fretting. |
