Guitar 803 – Reset neck, then keep shaping
September 30, 2008
As the neck needed further “adjusting”, I remounted the neck in the jig, knowing that I needed to increase the neck angle ever so slightly. I just barely adjusted the angle from the original setting, and rerouted out a new angle, and, viola! it was dead on.
Took a measurement on the neckand the fretboard, marked up, and continued rasping toward the perfect shape.
Mounted the end cap with a scrap of rosewood, then tested fit of everything. Just a bit more neck shaving to do to get it to the same dimension as the fretboard. I think I have the right shape, but will have Larry hold and suggest any adjustments. Hey, there’s a benefit to a custom, you can get the neck shape just as you like it!
Larry 803 on 06 Oct 2008 at 5:49 pm #
The thrill of ordering a custom guitar is watching it come together, selecting the materials, and telling your luthier to keep working on that neck . . . it isn’t there yet. It is so hard to know what it will be like with strings and all put together. I just have to go by feel, and by how it lines up with the image in my mind’s eye. Luckily, Stephen is a guitar player, and understands how a neck should look and feel.