These are some of the projects that I'm most proud of.
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That's a beauty. Did you make it?
Yeah, thanks!!! Mahogany neck with a walnut fretboard and abalone markers. It was for my GF's father in law, so sadly I don't have that one anymore. Working on a maple neck/maple fretboard in a white Arturo Fuente box for a co worker now.
Fuente boxes are awesome! Man, your process sounds a lot more sophisticated than mine lol. All my necks are red oak and all my fret boards are yardsticks. Most of my saddles and nuts are all screws, and my strings are held on by hinges from old boxes. And I cannibalized old guitars for the tuning keys and strings. Very rudimentary shit, but kinda like the old blues men used to build them.
Probably not that much different, just getting 1/4 blanks, ripping on the tablesaw then use the router table to get them flush. Used to use a hand plane for that but any excuse to buy a power tool! I like to use the fancy 3 string bridges, not too bad if you buy multiples on A. But my 1st used threaded rod and nuts for the nut and a floating bridge. I was way too confident going into that one though... didn't measure things correctly so it has a weird scale length, my scarf jointed angled headstock didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to, and I made the neck out of a single piece of poplar, obviously with no fretboard, lamination or truss rod it's a banana now, but I still have it, if nothing else to remember where I started and it's a measuring stick on how far I've come.
Well you're a true craftsman. My first one was really similar to that, also a banana lol but looks decent enough on a mantle even tho it's not playable. I tried my hand at an angled headstock once, and it didn't pan out. I use one solid piece for the neck and I join another shorter length of wood with with 45 cut on the bottom for a heel. Some screws, a little wood glue and a whole lot of sanding to round the edges, and it doesn't look half bad, for an amateur like myself.
That's almost exactly what I do, I just use power tools because I'm old and lazy!
And yours are pretty sharp, too!