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It will be like a Fender Neck as in flat sawn only. First job is to cut the truss rod channel. Second, Thickness the headstock. I'll cut horizonally to 9/32" thick for the headstock, stopping 1/2" from where the nut will be, so you can radius up to the fingerboard. Third, I taper the neck to the desired width. Fourth, Mark the fingerboard to the sides of the neck and trim it on the tablesaw with my jig. There's a picture on my Photoblog of that. Fifth, glue the fingerboard down, clamping every 3 inches and you can use zip ties for this also along with clamps and it'll help keep the board centered. Sixth, glue on the peghead ears to the head stock size you want and thickness those After the glue dries. Don't cut the peghead shape until you shape the back of the neck so you have something flat to clamp to. Mount the headstock in a vise and..... Seventh, shape the back of the neck to the desired thickness and roundness. Once those things are done you can go from there. OR just finish it off with Tung Oil Varnish for that Nice smooth Natural wood finish. This is just how I do it, BTW, nothing set in stone. A Little side story, The bandsaw wasn't cutting well so I got out my Wagner Power Planner and used that to thichness my headstock so It goes to show ya, you can do most anything IF you have the right tools. Some of this may not be how everyone does a Fender Style neck, Just My Fender style neck. To each their own.

Yeah, It's pretty piece of Maple. I just cut the truss rod slot and drilled the Nut access hole. It'll adjust at the heel and it will get a flat headstock since that's the easiest way I know. On The Trial neck the truss rod access hole was off slightly and split the maple so I can't use it for the real thing but That's what I wanted to see about so I didn't mess the Real Neck up. As often as I adjust the truss rod I figured the adjustment nut at the heel would be fine. It's gonna be a bolt on also.

I finally started the neck for the V today. I started with a trial piece of Scrap Maple I had in the shop and it will be fine. I'll be making a similar neck for the Roswell but Nothing is set in stone yet as I ordered a Jackson style neck that I may use on one of these.

Thanx Setch, Ya cleared it right up.

Garrett said they will be up on the site soon. they just got a huge box of them just as I emailed him and he was just able to give me the prices. Look under the New Items Box at the Warmoth site regularly and they'll be up there soon.

I may misunderstand this but if your using a pickguard or cavity cover wouldn't you be able to route those channels out OR drill after you get top attached? Hence the blocking of the channels could be cleaned up after the glueing. And how would you get the controls in place if you don't open it up somehow?

I had thought that Top Ferrules were a commodity like gold or something since everywhere I asked they did not sell them or tell me the manufacturer. Finally, Warmoth comes through again and pulls my butt outta the fire. They DO have a 25 Dollar minimum but that shouldn't be a problem since I plan on buying alot of them just to have em on hand in case they sell out of them right away. I'll keep a special stash of em for future projects.

Matt, That was a joke, I was speaking of the CAT!

Maiden69, They are slow and haven't got mine yet and I ordered it The 15th. He got back to me Finally but after 3 emails and sent me the Tracking number. OK, It shipped on the 15th and will be here by the 23rd so after that, I'll let you know what I think of it. It should be ok, I'm still pissed it's taking so long tho. $13.50 American for shipping and it takes that long to get from Oregon to Ohio. Bullisht.

Bmachine, Like the others have said you have lots of choices and it all comes down to preference much of the time with many of us ease of installation. The Hipshot bridges are Top Notch and are my personal preference since they are easy to install and they look great as well. The strings going through the body help with sustain. I'm doing a body with a tune-o-matic bridge with strings thru and just found some top ferrules at Warmoth that look great on the top.

Nice work Matt. I like the black n white one but I don't see any pickups on her anywhere......HeHeHe. Lotsa Points, so, Don't Hurt Anyone With That Thing, Especially yourself.

They will have top ferrules at Warmoth very soon, as told to me by Garrett. 5.00 for chrome, 5.50 black and 6.00 for gold. I imagine the price is for 6 of them.

Great News Everyone Interested! Garrett Baker Just got back to me from Warmoth and they just recieved TOP FERRULES for 5.00 for chrome, 5.50 black and 6.00 for gold. I believe thats for 6 of them but, I'll have to get back to you about it OR look for them on their website in new items! I know many of you will love to see this, as I've been searching everywhere for them also.

I did kind of a dumb thing. I ordered a Jackson style neck and I'm gonna use that for the V and gonna build a neck for the RR. It's been raining the last few days and haven't gotten out to the workshop.

I know hardly nuthin about electronix but why couldn't you wire in a low impedence input like a mic socket and run the power from that seeing as how mics that require phantom power connect to it and work fine. And like LOveKraft said you could build a regulator circuit and bump it down to the required voltage.

Carter, How unusual of a design do you have in mind? Do you plan on building for yourself in the future? I'm not that good of a builder but I'd love to try out your unusual design if your game.

Ya know, You could always try installing a multi-effect or Bass pedal of some sort and see if you like that. I got the idea from someone else to put a mini amp into the body and a nice speaker for a travel guitar.

this is the Jackson body NOT mine. It'll be a reverse but......Jackson would not be proud of this one. The back body wood had some bug holes in it after I sanded the profile, I noticed them. Originally, I planed to just throw it together but now it's getting interesting.

I cleaned it up a bit and need to sand and route the pickup and control cavities.

Do It. I really do hope you have good luck with it. I hate to see you set yourself up for something that's not what you really want. I hope I haven't offended you with my lil rant.

Nope, He was right. I hate the idea of putting CRAP in a guitar that doesn't belong there and Gibson, In their Infinite wisdom had chose to put CRAP in their guitars that was never meant to be there in the first place. They must have had a contract with Moog and had to put something with his products in them and They Failed Miserably. Why would I want anyone to subject their self to the same Miserable failings that they had with the RD series? R & D, Research and Development. They tried, they failed.

I just ordered their Jackson Style Neck and I will keep you posted on it's quality. Slick, Do you're guitars get nicked regularly? I know, It's probably a figure of speech but, I'm interested in knowing.

My suggestion from the other post is Fuggit aboutit. Gibson failed with it and so would you. They never caught on since Gibson were trying to compete with Japanese guitars. Tear apart an effect pedal and mount that in there, you'll like that better anyhoo.

Did you like the sound of it before the refret? Or didn't you play it before? Somebody on the forum is making a guitar from MDF and it looks odd but he was just trying an Idea or design. Without the experiments we do, you'd never know if things like that could be done or not. Like Shaggy said, You may like it. Well, Maybe not since NOW you know it's MDF and that kinda thing you Never forget.

Your kinda hijacking me here but Yes use the router bit to cut the circumference then remove the template and lower the bit to cut the rest of the shape. essentially making the first router cut your template.