This is my second gallery of photos showing the progress of Ashley’s guitar. Here, I’ve begun making the neck for the guitar. There are a lot of steps involved in making the neck—this gallery shows about half of them.
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- Ready to make the neck.
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- Gluing on headstock extension.
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- Sanding the extension flush.
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- Thicknessing the neck blank.
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- Final neck blank.
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- Carbon fiber rods installed.
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- Neck side-profile bandsawed.
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- Neck rough-trimmed to width.
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- Cutting the neck tenon.
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- Cutting neck tenon (close-up).
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- Ready to install the truss rod.
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- Gluing in the truss rod.
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- Truss rod access location.
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- Headstock veneered & rough-cut.
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- Headstock routed & drilled.
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