Day 2 - Neck and Headstock Roughing

Here's a shot of the neck blank with a rough layout of the scarf joint drawn on it. In the background is the Make Your Own Electric Guitar fret spacing guide.

Another shot of the scarf joint layout.

I lopped off the bottom half of the neck blank. This will be flipped over, scarfed to the neck, and turned into the headstock.

here is the scarf joint on the neck side roughed out on the bandsaw.

Action shot of me roughing out the scarf joint on the headstock using the bandsaw.

Scarf joint surface - this gotta be smooth for the glue to hold! Right now it's pretty bumpy from the bandsaw.

So I run it over a jointer. That works pretty well. Just watch out for the grain. Because you're cutting across the grain, it will tend to tear out and piss you off on the backside.

Here's my cob-job glue up of the neck and headstock. This didn't work out so well... More on that later.