4449-day 3

One last update for the day. Roughed out a couple necks for the Daylighters today. One solid chunk of mahogany, no scarf joints.

The all solid one weighs in right now at 8.2lbs, the semi hollow feels to be around 6.5 (hasn't been on the scale yet). I figure by the time I finish removing the extra material off the neck but when I ad hardware this will probably be close to the final weight.

Thundering Forward...

Back to work!!! Its Tbird time!

How I ended up making the truss rod work. Basically I flipped it over so that I could leave as much wood under the adjuster as possible. Im going to do them all this way from now on.

On to drilling the fretboard for side dots.

Installing the dot filler rods

...and done

Clamping the fretboard down for glue up. I reused the same jig from the firebirds a while back.

Glued on!

Then it was time to start shaping the neck. First I started with roughing in the heel.a

From there it was time to start roughing in the neck. Since Dave wasn't in the shop today there aren't any action shots but the process was the same as doing the firebirds again.

Knocking the edges off.

The EB3 provides inspiration for the neck shape. This has got the greatest half-baseball-bat chunky C neck ever.

Steve doing a little tweaking to the heel after I shaped the neck itself.

FRIGGIN AWESOME! The neck profile is spot on.

teaser shots...

I'm still waiting on the friggin tuners to come off back order but it was time to polish and assemble what I can on the "JR". Two down.. Five to go.

Also managed to get color on Dave's 'bird over the last few days. I"ll get the clear wrapped up on his this week then move on to the next one.