With the body of the guitar completed, its time to start on the neck. I’m working with a neck blank that my buddy Thomas sent me. I had to make a few modifications to the blank to make it work with my particular set of plans and chosen dimensions. After modifying it, I cut the piece to length and routed the channels for the truss rod, and carbon fiber rods. From there, it was time to attach the head plate which was made from spalted maple to match the end wedge and rosette. I used a simple jig made from scrap wood, to cut the head plate off at 90 degrees to the playing surface of the neck. Then using my headstock template, I routed the headstock to shape. At this point the neck is still very blocky, its beginning to look a little bit like a guitar neck.

For those of you that do not know, I am currently going through the Eric Schaefer online guitar building course. I need to give a huge shout out to Eric for putting together such a thorough and detailed course. His course, as well as the knowledge of my friend and local luthier Matt Zimbelman of Zimbelman Guitars, have been my main source of knowledge for this entire project. If you are looking at an online guitar building course to help you build a guitar, I can highly recommend Eric Schaefers online course. I’ll put links below to Erics website as well as the Zimbelman Guitars site. Please go check out both as their instruments are awesome.

Have a great day!

Eric Schaefer Guitars – https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/
Zimbelman Guitars – https://zimbelmanguitars.com/

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