Next step was to glue the fingerboard to the neck. I made some locating pins from paperclips, so make sure that the fingerboard wouldn´t slide around once the glue was applied. This glue-up has to be very accurate.
Fingerboard glued and clamped.
Shaping the neck to match the fingerboards taper using a blockplane and chisels.
Shaping using a spokeshave..
Beautiful mahogany shavings. It smelled really good aswell!
Shaping the neck with a rasp. It has a pronounced V-neck taken from the plans.
Checking if my chisel is still sharp. Yep - its still sharp.
The neck pretty much done. I just need the final sanding.
Installing the frets. Since its a bound fingerboard, I had to remove the frettang from both ends of the frets. The frettang nippers you can buy a luthier supplies stores are really expensive, so I made one my self from a nibbler tool that i bought on ebay. I had to modify it slightly by cutting a grove in it with my dremel. I saved around 400 DKK on this. You can watch a tutorial on how to make a frettang nibbler here.
Neck done and looking good!
Before the neck was glued to the body, I made sure that it was set with all the correct angles.
The neck being glued to the body.
Levelling the frets.
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