some of you know about a certain deal that went bad on me (mods im not going into anything farther then that, and if anybody here wants to know, look it up) but anyways, we all hear about how people are afraid to start building there own neck, and it may be scary at first for some people, but im confident enough now to start building my own (I have put the ironbird project on hold right now im still not confident enough in myself to start working on her!) so with that being said here we go! (sorry about picture quality, im still getting used to this camera) this thread should also prove the purpose that IT DOES NOT take 2 years to build a 27 fret neck.
Here is my maple neck blank (thank you yet again rich for the awesome woods!)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/the_fined/neck001.jpg
nextly I located the center line of the wood and marked out the width of the truss rod (Im using a stew mac hotrod)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/the_fined/neck002.jpg
after I did this, I marked out the angle of the headstock using hiscock's book (I actually have it marked for a 10 degree and 13 degree angle, I will be using the 13 degree)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/the_fined/neck003.jpg
Either tommorow or tuesday I will be cutting out the scarf joint and gluing it up, more pictures to come then.