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is the wood that you order planed? And does he charge extra for things that are not standard? (on the site)

i'm looking for a magahony neck blank with a thickness of 1 inch because I'm going to do a scarf joint and Cropp doesn't seem to have one in their standard collection. And david dyke also has thin hardwood strips for a laminated neck. In my opionion David Dyke has much choice and is reasonable priced.

Im from the Netherlands and I've been to Vox Humana. They'll rip you off. They charge around $80 for a neck (not what i says on the website) I think I'm ordering my woods from David Dyke or Tonewoods in England. Neck blanks are much cheaper there. And most of the woods in Vox Humana are not quarter-sawn.

I used the above method on my first neck i'm now making. I used an handsaw to make the cut, a little blockplane to make the sawed edges staight and a scraper to make them glue-ready. For glueing the peaces together I made a special set-up. I put the neck on edge on a flat workboard and clamp it. Then i put the headstock in its place (no glue yet) and traced around it with a pencil. I clamped stopblocks on the neck end and on the headstock end to stop it from shifting. Then i removed the headstock part, put glue on it, put it back in place using the pencil lines and clamped it. If you clamp the stopblocks real tight your set-up will not shift when you put clamps on the scarf-joint (with cauls). You can put a piece of waxed paper on your workboard to prevent glueing you neck to your workboard. When everything is glued together you can surface the top of the headstock on a sanding board. I hope that makes some sense, since i'm not English. Thats the method I use. It's hard work but you can do it with some basic tools and the result is perfect!

would it make any difference if the three maple pieces weren't cut from the same blank?

well I live in the Netherlands, and we have alot of rainy days

a 50 fretter I forgot to say the neck blank i'm planning to buy lays outside not inside. Should i buy it or look for a nice piece that is kept inside. The dude at the woodshop told me that honduras magahony is no longer imported because of overcropping, so i dont know if i'm gonna find a nice quartersawn piece again. Sorry for asking all these beginner questions

will a smoothing plane do the job? cause i only have that and a small blockplane.

so from the side a vertical laminate would look like this: ----------------------------- fingerboard ----------------------------- wood piece 1 ------------------------------- wood piece 2 ------------------------------

does it make any difference if the laminates are vertical or horizontal? and if I let it saw in a shop does it have to planed for an accurate joint?

ok thanks

I have a bought a quarter-sawn honduras magahony billet for the construction of the neck. Question 1: Is this strong enough? I think it is but im not sure. Question 2: I think im gonna buy a big piece of sapi magahony for the body. Makes it any difference that the neck and the body are made of two different types of Magahony? Thanks in advance. Great forum!

He guys im planning to make a gibson explorer with Floyd rose tremelo. Is a floyd brigdge lower then a tune-o-matic bridge? If it is, do i have to angle my neck to get a good action? and is there a relation between a floyd rose tremelo and an angled headstock?