Neck

Yesterday I spliced the neck. This process gives the head stock an angle which strengthens the neck. You start off with the neck blank:

The neck blank is then spliced across the diagonal line:

The wedge that has been cut off is then glued reversed to the back of the neck:

Clamped up:

The end result:

The next step will be cutting the neck to length. Part of the piece that comes off will be glued at the back at the end of neck to form the heel.

Neck, Back and Top

I have started up three jobs in parallel: The neck, back and top. To start with the neck. The piece of walnut that I got was a bit to wide and needed to be planed down. A good 20 minutes and a pile of wood curls later:

 With that done I took a sliding bevel and set its angle according the plans and traced the angle out onto the side of the neck.

Later I will cut of this wedge with a saw and glue it reversed to the back of the neck. That will form the tilted back head stock.
I left the neck for now since I finally bought myself a fretsaw.No not to cut in the frets in the fret board but a wood saw which can be used to cut out shapes. I need it to cut out my top and back since I do not have band saw. I used a paper template of the top (and back) to draw them on the plates:

After that I draw a line by hand about 1 cm around the shape.

At last I cut out the rough shapes of the top and back. They are still way to thick but that will be taken care off later: