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Here are a couple of boards I picked up on the bay today. The 3 flatsawn boards I might use to try laminating some blanks. The big piece of quartersawn maple looks like it has a couple of necks in it, I have a little room to get it down to 3/4". As for the paduak I really have no idea. Maybe laminate it with the maple? Any ideas. This is really the first time I have bought wood not labled as a neck blank. How did I do?

1/4sawn maple;

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flat sawn maple;

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Paduak;

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whoops, double post. Thats one way to get there

You need to become an advanced member. Either donate some money ($10 min) or get a certain # of posts. I forget how many, more than 100 though I think. I donated the first day I found the board. Its the best $10 you can spend.

How would this piece work?

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Myka, where do you get your graphite from? Also what kind of wood is that neck?Guitar look great!

So what woods do you guys like to use in your laminations?

Ok, I have been looking around at wood and I have few questions. How would a neck out of only bloodwood be? Would it be a better to laminate it with something? How about paduak? I am hoping that I can get away without having to fork out $20 a neck for carbon rods as Im still kind of in the learning stage. I guess you get what you pay for though. Anyway, any comments are appreciated.

I have decided that I want to try and aquire some wood to have a go at laminating up some neck blanks. How do you all do it? How many laminations are a good idea? What dimensions do you use? What do you all prefer? Thanks!

Well, ideally I would look for 1/4 sawn. If I had a piece that was flatsawn I would probably use some carbon fiber rods. Im bassically building bolt on neck guitars. I will try glued in necks soon. I play mainly punk/rock so a gritty bridge pickup sound is what Im going for overall but I by no way want to limit my options for building.

Thats a sweet top! Is that the kind of neck joint they used on 50's LP's?

I am just starting out building so I figure I should try and stock up on woods. I have been working with hard maple for necks and have liked it but I am curious as to what else is available for making one piece necks. By one piece I mean neck with seperate fingerboard. I may try a laminate neck down the road but I have very few tools at this point and cutting the neck out of a single piece works best for me at this point. Anyway, Warmoth has a whole list of woods used for necks, which of these have you guys had experience with and what do you like to use?

Bocote

Bubinga

Canary

Cocobolo

Goncalo Alves

Koa

Limba

Padouk

Pau Ferro

Walnut

Ziricote

Wenge

I cant seem to find it on the site but does Allied do slotting and radiusing of fingerboards?

That is a fantastic guitar! Great pics and nice router table, good job! Did yo have a template to rout the neck taper?

Hell for 5K you could butcher a truckload of wood and a few tools learning how to do it and still come out with several nice guitars. Save your money and make it.

Thanks for the info. I'm glad I waited. The guy said he may have some hard curly maple but he will have to look. Well see.

I came across a place that is selling some maple blanks that are said to be red curly maple. I don know enough about wood to be able to tell if they are hard maple or soft maple or what. Does anyone know if this is adequet for building necks?

I would think that the best way to start would be to take some steel wool to the rusty areas and try to clean up the mess. I would pay particular attention to the top. Hopefully it hasnt pitted at all (unlikely). You could probably use a fine sandpaper to really smooth it out (the top). For the rest of the body just sand that mess of and paint it up with whatever. I know there is a Krylon spraypaint for metal/rust resistance. Morben's link looks like a good bet too. Maybe give it some flames, monster garage style Good luck with it.

Yeah its a solid color but honestly I really would rather just make a modified neck (as long as that option works ). I don't have any mahagony scrap and I could use the neck making practice.

Thanks for all the ideas. Here is what I think im going to do. Im going to make a new neck with my last blank. For this one I'll just move the nut about 1/2" toward the heel esentially shortening the whole neck 1/2" and allowing the bridge some extra room. This way my neck pocket route wont have to change and I can stick with the 25.5 scale. Now a question that I was going to ask in another thread. For those who use a stewmac hotrod truss rod how long is your actual route for it? If it will be adjusted from the heel how far from the nut do you stop? Thanks again!

Rhodes, when i set up the hardware (fenderhardtail bridge and humbucker mounting ring) the two touched eachother. It looked kind of odd to me. I am worried that if I were able to lengthen the pocket as Wes said that the fit would suffer. How much would you guys suggest I move lengthen it? Maybe I could fill the route and redo it a bit closer to the neck pocket.

thanks Wes! My main thing was not wanting to make a new neck. I was hoping to simply get the 26.18" fretboard and attach it to the existing neck I have been working on. LMI says they are 22 fret so I know there will be overhang. I couldnt really extend the neck pocket at this point because then the neck would be scrap. Any ideas?

Well here is my problem. I have a body and routed the neck pocket and the single bridge humbucker route. Turns out that I routed the humbucer too far back on the body. Now with the 25.5" scale I origionally intended on places the bridge only about 5/8" away from the route. LMI sells a 26.15ish scale fretboard. This would allow me to move the bridge back to a descent distange from the humbucker. Does anyone have any ideas about any other ramifications of this change. I would imagine that I would have at least a 3/8" overhang but thats fine as I only have the bridge pickup. Also the neck is already cut out and was set up for the 25.5" scale. I can't figure out if this will also be an issue. Thanks guys!

Myka, that is a great site thanks!

Chris, enough....seriously

Thanks man! I saw the warmoth and Stewmac ones. $15 is pretty good. Any other sources are welcome. Thanks again.