David Ivy

I routed a round over on the body & I put the frets in the fretboard on the neck.

Today I did some body carving and sanding

Carving the arm comfort curve.

Then the belly comfort curve and bottom horn curve. Then I fit the neck just to see what it looks like.

@Bizman62 I'm thinking about painting it silver glitter with black hardware. 

I routed the body tonight. The pickup cavities & the control cavity & neck pocket.  I routed the Jack plate cavity on the backside. I wanted to make this

Some thing a little different.

@mistermikev it's five o'clock somewhere! Lol...

@mistermikev Thank you. I am pretty proud of my work on this neck.red oak with walnut fretboard & red oak fret markers. I compared it with a factory neck & I have got it almost spot on for thickness & demintions.

@ScottR thanks, the new Shinto rasp I just got makes fast work of shaping a neck.

I did some carving on the profile of the neck with my new shinto saw rasp. Radious the fretboard and drilled the holes for the tuners.

@Bizman62that is a cool reference to the color. It is a royal blue over black.

And thank you, the red oak neck with walnut fretboard and red oak fret markers ,I think it looks pretty good.

I drilled the holes for fret markers. Then I used a plug bit to drill out the markers out of red oak. Then I glued the fret markers in. I also chiseled out the nut slot.

@ScottR@Bizman62 thank you for the helpful tips I will have to try those on the next neck that I build.

I am also putting together a tele from parts but i made the body out of one piece of poplar. Then I used Rit dye and dyed it black sanded that back til it was just in the grain then dyed it royal blue over that. I think it looks nice.

@Bizman62 yes I did.

And I put tape over it before spreading the glue. Then I pealed the tape off and put the fretboard on and clamped it down.

Well I sanded the glued in strip even with the neck. Then I drew a center line, and I routed it ever so slowly by hand and eye. Then I glued the fretboard on.

@Bizman62 thank you for your suggestions. I do really appreciate them.

I will do that on the next neck blank I route.

But, I want to try and salvage the neck I am working on. As this is my second full build I did learn lessons from my first build and these things teach me how not to do some tasks.

@Crusaderthank you. I will figure out the best way I can do the repair. Although the best way would be to route a truss rod channel first ,then find the center and draw the line and cut out the neck shape accordingly.

Okay ,

I chiseled out the truss rod channel.  Then I cut a strip of wood to fit the channel and glued it in.

@Crusader thanks for the tips and encouragcement. I am going to cut a strip of wood and glue it in. Then reroute the channel again.

@Bizman62 thank you for the helpful tips. I appreciate that.

17 hours ago, David Ivy said:

 

@Bizman62 #1 I tried to drill out some of the wood first so the router  didn't have to work as hard. #2 the side of the board that I used to rout against the fence on my router table was not planed to a straight edge.

I hope that it will work , but worse case sinarrio I have another piece of wood. I could start again if need be.

I have started a strategy style body and neck. This is my second scratch build. Last night I cut the neck blank and routed the truss rod channel.

Today I cut and planed fretboards.did fretboard slots and sanded the body some.

I meant to say I used a little rose wood saw dust & superglue to fill in a small divit in the end of the fretboard.

Finally got the frets out of my SG neck. Sanded the fret radious for about 2 &1/2 hours. Got it where it needs to be and got the chip in the fretboard out.

Used a little of the rose wood saw dust to fill in a little divit in the end of the fretboard after I sanded most of the chipped out piece away.

@mistermikevi understand,

I enjoy working with my hands.

When I started building kits, it was to learn more about guitars than just playing them.  I now Love building bodies and I rather enjoyed building my SG.

Something about bringing art to life! That makes it all worth the hard times you might have throughout the build.

I remember when I was a teenager and learning to play ,I had a lotus les paul copy. I took it apart to paint it a different color and couldn't put it back together so I gave it to my best friend at the time And told him if you can put it together you can have it. Needless to say he put it together and played it. And still has it today. Lol...

@Mistermikev seems like if you have a cnc machine you would be able to build guitars much faster than some one like me who can only build one at a time.

@mistermikev you have a cnc machine. Right?