Curtis P Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I was thinking, why not make a neck on a lathe, heres how i would do it. 1) laminate selected wood 2) put on lathe, cut it roughley first 3)get it sanded really smooth on lathe so its round except where headstock goes (left big block i suppose) 4) take off lathe, go to bandsaw 5)cut down the middle withbandsaw 6)put freshly sawn face on jointer so perfectly flat 7) you have 2 necks that just need the headstock shaped and truss rod routed Would this work? i think it would be kinda neat to do, and it would be alot faster Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 no it wouldn't work i don't think because a neck is not a half circle you might get a baseball bat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truerussian558 Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 well it wold but the back of the neck would be perfectly rounded and thats generally not wanted (look at any neck its not a perfect semi circle it usually a tad flat at the bottom) secondly it would be hard to bandsaw since it is round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I'm not sure you'd ever want to build a neck like that. Like I showed you before you could build something as simple as this to carve neck contour or guitar tops. And like they said, the back of most necks aren't perfectly round, for one thing it would be very uncomfortable to play and trying to bandsaw a round object will be hard enough in itself. This carver makes it easy to build an exact duplicate. You can build one for around 300 dollars or check with Myka, he has a nice duplicating device he built also, he might be able to give you some tips. Picture of me carving neck contour. You can build one like I'm using from plans you can get at www.copycarver.com It will get the job done in around 10 minutes, then I like to go over it with a 3D sander to smooth out the rest without losing the contour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Picture of me carving neck contour. I'm so jellous at you guys with those nice toys... I am going to check that site to se if I can build one. P roblem I got is that I'm in the ARMY and we move so much that I can't get a house and start making my own tool shop. All I got now is power tools and some other stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rendisha Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 This thing makes life much easier CFox neck shaper Taken from CFox Guitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budman68 Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 That's a very interesting jig ! Dave-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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