Bizman62

Yes, the last shot really explained the issue at hands. As the images #3 and #4 show, you've already jumped off the path of it being a carbon copy of a Gibson neck. The angle doesn't look bad at all, only a few degrees. Out of curiosity I used your method on my '94 Fender AmStd Strat and to me it looked like it was angled both ways, i.e. similarly to yours and rounded inwards. An easy way to make the sharp edge to feel more "played in" is take a piece of 400 grit wet'n'dry, fold it to an inch diameter slightly flattened roll which you can tweak around your mid finger and lightly run along the fretboard edge. That will round the ends of the frets at the same time, the laziest and fastest way to do that.

You're right, the tighter the end grain is the heavier the wood. However, it also depends on the dampness. The wide fast grown stripes are those that carry most of the water, the more the closer to the surface (bark) they are. So a moisture meter might help you some. Potentially the swirly grain stuff is heavier as you supposed, since it has more of that slow grown grain.

Yet one idea: Expand the idea of binding to the neck as well to create a semi laminated neck. That would allow for reshaping the neck. A contrasting 0,5 mm veneer would allow for using the same wood without looking cheap. It would be relatively easy to do at the heel but blending it into the headstock might be problematic with the veneer in place. That said, what @curtisa and @ScottR said are better alternatives unless you really need to get the edge square.

Tin plated steel? Like that used on roofs and cans? The "tin" (zinc) is there to prevent rusting and if you cut it you'll get plain iron/steel. Lacquer will protect it to some extent, but at some point it will wear, leaving the steel prone to the corrosive sweat of your fingers. A piece of rectangular wire might be useful. Silver can be a little expensive, some £30 for 2 metres of 2 x 1 mm wire but you might find other metals as well.

Based on the video series I've developed some sort of fear for it. Agreed, it looks very interesting but having seen how it behaves... The soft parts definitely seem to need something to make them as tough as the hard parts - resin with matching coloured wood dust maybe? That said, the build already is on the heavier side and any impregnated stuff will add to the weight. That's an interesting build you've got there but the neck really makes me worried. It looks like the player could easily get remarkable shards of it into his left palm unless you find a way to stabilize it.

Your neck looks like mine! I mean the ones I've carved, that is, not the one my eyes can't see. No matter how much time and effort I put to shaping them, they always have a flat centerline. Then again, there's a reason for classical guitars to have a flatter neck so that obviously is an ergonomic decision. The biggest issue with that is that although my friends seem to like them for noodling, they aren't perfect for the palm and thumb muted chopping - the only style I'm at least decent... Anyhow, nice job!

Boys, boys, you're doing it all wrong! What if one day you'll notice that the money coming is barely enough for some mac'n'cheese and the necessary wood? Should that day come, and it will when your babies start wanting a smarter phone than the kid in the kindergarten, you'll be in trouble. Keep your ladies on the edge now so reality won't hit that hard when powerty knocks on the door. You know what happened to the luthier who won big in the Lottery? He continued building guitars for as long as any money was left.

Now that sounds scary! A simple way to see how it might look is some shiny sticker cut to the dimensions you planned to make the MOP inlay.

I've always loved your logo. Inlaying a smaller version into it might look good as the outlines often do. Then again it might spoil the characteristic graffiti tag look by making it too sophisticated. Like real gold rivets on jeans...

Ahh the matching covers! Just got to love those!

Oh dear... The first question that popped into my mind: Is it playable, and more importantly, does it feel nice? If the answer is yes, then the next question is: Does the angled fretboard matter other than that it may not be identical to that of an original LP? If the answer is yes, how about accepting it as a feature customized according to the preferences of the player? The biggest issue with lacquer on the neck is that it becomes sticky when your palms sweat. For what I've learned about Nitro is that one of the main features of it is that it can be applied very thinly so using it as a transparent filler seems illogical. A thick layer of lacquer of any kind may start cracking which can be very inconvenient. Lacquer fragments in your palm don't feel nice! If the edge of the fretboard really is so sharp it's uncomfortable to play, re-shaping the width or cutting the neck off and replacing it are the only viable alternatives if your goal is a quality instrument. For reshaping the existing one, squaring the edges and binding the fretboard would look nice, but instead of lacquer or nitro I'd use wood filler and paint the neck - and ruin the nice looks of mahogany! Also bear in mind that wood filler can crack as well as lacquer or nitro. Anyhow, painted necks have been around forever, hiding the most beautiful pieces of wood.

@verhoevenc pretty much nailed the main issues. To take it a bit further: Is the curve even or at one end? 1/16" is pretty much. The string pull will take care of some of it but routing the truss rod channel and gluing the fretboard can be a little challenging on a convex surface. However even if it's thicknessed for a bolt-on there's still enough material to plane it flat since the neck will be thinner than the ends. Also, 80 cm is longer than a guitar neck, cutting the extra 15 cm off will take care of some of the hump especially if it's more at one end.

Unholy Moe! I wouldn't like that thing hanging on my wall! For nightmares, that is. Outstanding creativity!

You live quite near the Netherlands... "Fret job" might not be guitar related there.

Oh you 'Muricans with guns all over the place, making an accidental "I was just cleaning it when it just made a huge bang" so easy... Then again, can't remember if it was Hammett or Chandler who had a story about a heat wave back in the days of refrigerators working with ice, an ice pick was mentioned to be the favourite weapon of the wife. Punch it into the ear and wipe the excess off and "he just sorta paralyzed and then fell down".

Next you're going to tell me that "blow job" is not about filling balloons?

How about "tell your better half in your will not to sell them too cheap"

@ADFinlayson Holy Mo... whoever that guy was! Those pieces look like they've got warts and blisters all over, yet I know they're flat! @mistermikev Take every nice piece you can afford! Some day your widow will thank you, selling your stock to a big name custom shop agent. At least that's what I read in the Fender Frontline magazines back in the mid-nineties. Back then their Custom Shop luthiers used to "salvage" the backyard stocks of late carpenters in the driest parts of USA. Just tell your better half not to sell them cheap!

You English speaking people seem to twist the true meaning of most any words or expressions. Handarbeit, hantverk, käsityö... they all translate to hand work. Aren't work and job synonyms any longer?

Nice summary there!

Looks like a variation of the sign languages for hearing impaired. 1 to 5 seems to be similar in most languages, from there on they start to vary a lot.

Are you sure you aren't confusing the Chinese to the Russians from Pripyat? BTW good job with the bending if you made it fit better than the factory! Hand job FTW!

That's what the Chinese do... Any amount costs the same. Or rather, it's the work of counting and packaging that costs, not the actual items. Notice the difficulty there: You just can't use one hand for packing and the other for counting, there's too few fingers in one hand for that!

If it were, I'd have no issue. I'm afraid my inlaying skills could best be described as hammering an oversized square block into a round hole, hoping there'd be no gaps. At the moment my woodworking is not that delicate:

Sell them on Ebay in bunches of 6, for 6€ a lot plus shipping?