Set #10 Final shaping of necks & fitting to bodies
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:29 pm
On most of Semie's early Bakersfield guitars he used notched fret for the string guide '60-'63. All the pre-Ventures Maphis' and about a dozen or so of the '63 Ventures models, works real well, and I think it looks cool.
Here I'm drilling the pocket for the truss rod adjustment nut.
I'm going to fit all the necks to the bodies, a little belt-sanding and block-sanding an they fit like a glove, then I'll come back and finish shaping the backs of the necks, make and install the truss rods and glue 3 necks in, ones going to be a bolt-on.
Well it's time to shape the backs of the necks, I use my little belt-sanding machine and my drum sander to remove most of the wood, but all the final shaping I do by hand with sanding blocks, I spend hours hand-sanding to get that "Just Right" vintage Mosrite feel.
Here I'm drilling the pocket for the truss rod adjustment nut.
I'm going to fit all the necks to the bodies, a little belt-sanding and block-sanding an they fit like a glove, then I'll come back and finish shaping the backs of the necks, make and install the truss rods and glue 3 necks in, ones going to be a bolt-on.
Well it's time to shape the backs of the necks, I use my little belt-sanding machine and my drum sander to remove most of the wood, but all the final shaping I do by hand with sanding blocks, I spend hours hand-sanding to get that "Just Right" vintage Mosrite feel.