Tapering the fingerboard

Now we have the fingerboard glued to the neck. The next step it to cut the excess wood of the neck, first with a saw, and then with a planer or with a router and a ball bearing router bit. using the fretboard as a guide.








Next step, fitting the frets.

Neck and fingerboard glued

Today I have finished of gluing the fingerboard



You can't see it but there are inlayed MOP dots waiting for a 12" radius.

Travel guitar headstock

This entry it's only to show the work done in the baby guitar's headstock:

Maple veneer glue in.


Headstock shaped:



.. and back ..

Baby guitar mock up

This post it's only to show that I'm still hard working in the "Baby guitar":

A pic worth one thousand words ...

Building a travel guitar

I have routed the body and, using a fostner bit, empty the body as much as I can.




A mock up of the guitar. The fingerboard it's not tapered yet.



And a horrible mistake ...



But there is nothing that a good glue can't fix