This morning I continued working on the Telecaster neck, The first order of the day was to removed some material from the headstock leaving it 15mm thick. I set up my router to trim the wood to the correct thickness. I used almost every clamp for this job!
Once the thickness was correct I drilled out a hole to allow access to the truss rod adjuster and then carved the nut end in a slightly unconventional way, something has to be individual and unique about this neck!
I have carved a step instead of the usual sloping transition. Next I filled in the gaps at the edges of the frets with some super glue and sawdust.
I the started to lay out the neck ready for the carving of the profile. Then its out with the rasp file.
I want to start the profile by taking a good chunk off each side. I marked a centre line down the back and then another line 10mm away from the centre line at the net end and 13mm at the heel.this give me a roughly parallel guide line. I then marked a line 10mm from the bottom of the side and then another 5mm above that. I then carved to the parallel lines on the bottom and the 10mm at the top and bottom of the neck.
After the rasp took most of the material off I used a file to smooth out everything and then too a small plane and joined up the top and bottom carves.
More to come later (Canadian Grand Prix is about to start now though!)
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