After sawing the neck blank in 2 pieces, I planed down the headstock part down to the right thickness.
Gluing the scarf joint.
Neck block glued. After this I routed the trussrod channel.
Tenon cut and rough shaping the heel. I be using Cumpiano´s bolt-on method for attaching the neck to the body.
Heel shaping.
Headstock veneer being glued.
The result.
Headstock rough cutted.
Holes for tuningmachines drilled.
Headstock slots drilled out and being shaped.
Cleaning up the slots.
Done and looking good.
My last name cut out in Mother of Pearl. The little curl underneat is taken from a inlay from the Larson Brothers that im very inspired from.
Routing the cavity.
Inlay being glued. I´m using thin viscosity CA glue, activator spray and a black magic marker. A trick I saw in one of John Halls youtube videos. The idea is that you lay down your inlay, put black marker on top, spray it with the activator so it removes the glue and only leaves the black paint back. Then you flood it with the CA-glue, that picks up the black color and fills up the gaps. This way your cavity dosen´t have to be 100% since the gaps are filled afterwards. This works especially good on ebony since its so dark.
