Finishing the Rough Necks

Scarf Joints are done and now it's time to cut truss rod slots and glue up the heel blocks. Truss rod slots are done as stopped routes on a router table. The heel block glue up is a bit of a tedious process with a 5 piece neck, the lamination layers must line up 100% front & back otherwise things will look off when the heel is carved.

Both operations are done and next is some fingerboard work.

Truss rod slot cut, note the tape on the router table to
mark the edge of the router bit for the stopped cut

Both Tenor & Parlour necks done

gluing the last block on the heel, each block is glued on individually
so they can be exactly aligned

Two rough necks

Bracing the Back

So the braces for the back are cut and sanded to a 15 foot radius then rough shaped on the band saw.

Then glued on in a go-bar deck..

Ready for final shaping and a quick voicing of the back.

Gluing on the Bridge & Slotting the Nut

Another step closer to strings going on..

Bridge is measured aligned and glued on! The nut is shaped and slotted (it's a black horn nut in case anyone is wondering)

Yes I did remove that stray bit of glue on the left :-)

Gluing up the Bindings

I'm slow at this but since I use fish glue for the bindings I can afford to be slow.

Using Fish Glue you can even stop to take aphoto

Now just needs to dry, the one disadvantage of Fish Glue is it takes a good 12+ hours to dry