Headstock

Most of the latest work on my guitar wend into the headstock. With a half-round rasp and a lot of patience I got to the rough shape:

With a spokeshave I made the neck itself a little rounder also:

Next concern will be the portion between the neck and the headstock.

Back (at the) Neck

It is still all back and neck work. It appeared that the trussrod was about 10 cm to long. But luckily they can be cut and welded to shorten it. Someone did that for me. But we did it with an other trussrod as the one where I routed the channel for. This new one was slightly wider so I had to make some adjustments to the channel but after I did that (with chisel and file) it fit perfectly. The neck is now ready to receive the fretboard. With 8 clamps  the fretboard is glued to the neck:

The end result:

While the neck was drying I draw and cut out the rough outline of the back with an electric fretsaw. It has about 1 cm over length:

As the picture shows the back is still pretty thick (about 6 mm). It has to loose at least 3 mm. You can do this with a block plane but flamed maple looks nice but has a downside. The flames you see are in fact little bumps in the wood which makes it hard to plane. So I used the same method as I did with the side. A router with an as wide as possible cutter in it. Just remove small vertical sections at a time. Time consuming, yes but hey, it works:

And it pays off: