A First Quality mahogany blank
has been slotted, to receive the
truss rod.
Here is another view of it.
A pocket was carved in the
peghead for access to the truss
rod.
Ken and I have been working on 2 neck blanks, one walnut
and the other mahogany, simultaneously. We have glued
the "ears" to the pegheads, inserted the truss rods, and
glued in strips of filler wood.
Pictured on the left is the support structure on which we will
shape the necks. We have cut both necks down a bit, but there
is lots of shaping ahead.
Here is the shaped mahogany neck. I used wood files and sandpaper.
Ken thinks that the craftsmen in Kalamazoo used pull knives or some
other tools to get the job done quite a bit more quickly. Roger Siminoff
writes that he shapes his necks on pattern carvers and get a perfect
neck and heel in less than 30 minutes.
Here is another view of the
shaped mahogany neck.
We have glued a piece of
ebony veneer, 3/16 " in width,
to the front of the peghead.
Then we cut the peghead to
the shape of the Studio King
on a bandsaw, using a jig to
allow us to make the cut
perpendicular to the plane of
the fretboard.
Here are photos of the front and
the back of the peghead, after
filing and sanding.
