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Body size looks fine to me.
As for the truss rod / headstock conundrum, i'd just route out a bit rather than thinning the headstock.
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Well I ended up taking the headstock down to 13.5mm, which is perfect for the grovers I have and also allowed me to us an auger bit for the adjuster nut bore. Basically it's all worked out perfectly, and while it was stressful I'm sooo happy to be at this point. Truss rod is nice and snug and perfect depth. I didn't get pics, but I put the curve on with a barrel sanding attachment in the drill press. Worked pretty good, but needs a little tidy up - no worse than a kit one!
Pics tell the story.. I need some beer.
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Good stuff mate. Looks great.
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Really enjoying this build Sonic
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Thanks guys, the support is very welcome. I’d never have got this far without this forum.
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Nut slot cut and fret board glued on.. eep! I have measured and re measured to 3 decimal places but it's still pretty freaky making it permanent.
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Fretboard trimmed, relief past the nut radiused (needs a bit more to be nice and tidy), fretboard radiused.
I've pulled up short of completely radiusing towards the heel as I wanted to measure and check everything was coming down nice and evenly. Looks good so I'll do a finishing pass with 320 grit tomorrow. Then onto carving the neck.. which is a bit scary, but I'm sure it'll be fine if I take my time. Then a really good tidy up sand.
I was going to stain the fretboard black... but I'm thinking maybe I'll leave it natural colour now. What to people think? Darker would be better asthetically I think.. but I don't hate the oak/maple combo. I'll be doing satin poly on the neck and fretboard for finishing.
Probably need to think abotu some fret markers as well. I'm toying with the idea of using small nails and just doing along the edge, so they will just be little silver dots.
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Leave the board Natural mate, lust seal it with a resin or something eh?
looking schmick!
