So I decided that the headstock face needed to reflect the burl.
So with some judicious bandsaw, ryoba saw and thickness planer work we ended up with a 2mm slice of red gum burl for that.



The burl cap still has some flattening work required as there are some band saw marks and furrows in it.

I’d roughly mapped out the neck tenon on the neck blank, I need to adjust this and finalise it so that I can add the material to build up the neck heel.

Once the neck heel blank is in place, I can start to map out the heel and the tenon properly on the neck.
Once the burl cap is flattened, I can prep it for epoxy fill. Then fix it to the back. Then I can trim and rout the edge of the cap to match the back, map out the mortise neck pocket and the carve profiles for the taper to hide the 3 degree neck angle etc etc.

Nearly finished eh!?


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