So, on the left, FrankenLab's scarf jointed neck building effort, the right is the factory neck, less FB from my SV-1 kit.
Rear view of the necks
Highlighting the lamination of the three neck slices
The scarf joint, thankfully still solid as a rock
Unfortunately, here's where it all went a little pear shaped. Many bad words were spoken.
The upshot is, I was a little too impatient in thinning the headstock. Rather than considering what need to happen and the likely pitfalls and issues, I charged off and tried to take a lengthwise cut down the rear of the head to thin it out from 3/4" to the standard 1/2".
The Ryoba saw I was using deflected because I was effectively cutting through three divergent grain patterns at once. I tried to correct for this, instead of stopping and rethinking and this is what I have ended up with. All my efforts did was cause more of a bow in the cut and digging it in harder to the meat of the head stock. I probably would have been better off trying to rout that extra 1/4" off and shaping from there.
This was always an exercise in the exercise of building a neck. Given that the fundamentals of the thing are still sound, i am going to push ahead and install a truss rod and a fingerboard purely to gain the additional experience of mounting a TR, cambering a FB, fretting and possibly inlay. It is entirely possible that this will end up looking schmick, bar the obvious cock up, but i can't see machine heads mounting to it properly, and i'd imagine that if I did manage to get them on there, the head section would part company from the rest of it pretty damn quick under tension.
It goes back to what DB always says, don't rush.
I rushed. Oops and other associated bad words.
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